Rainbow Six Siege players may have figured out a Skopós counter already

Rainbow Six Siege Year 9 Season 3 is upon us, and will add a brand-new Operator to the roster, Skopós. Before its official release, you can try this new Defender on the Test Servers, and at the time of writing, some players have already figured out a counter for her.

Skopós is the first character in the game who can control two Shells (characters) in a single round, albeit one at a time. When one is active, the other one gets protected by a large deployable shield and then acts like a bulletproof camera or drone.

The method for countering Skopós is simple, yet effective, and all you need is a Claymore. You can see this in action below, in a clip from Rainbow Six Siege pro Dream’s stream.

The clip is from a match on Oregon, where Dream kept one of the V10 Pantheon Shells in the southwest corner of the Small Tower Office. The opponent IQ placed a Claymore right in front of the deployable shield, and as soon as Dream switched to that Shell, the shield was removed, triggering the Claymore, and resulting in an instant kill.

If you check the clip above, the space between the Claymore and the shield was negligible. Let’s take an example — you’re playing as Skopós and have kept one Shell for flank watch but it’s not active as you’re busy defending a site, an Attacker with Claymores could sneakily trap you into this counter. So, it results in a guaranteed kill most of the time, as Skopós won’t have any control during the shield removal animation.

Claymore’s Detection System is getting a buff in Year 9 Season 3, where the delay between activation and explosion will be removed. So, that makes this counter even better, and we might get to see it happen frequently when Operation Twin Shells drops on September 10, 2024.