20 highest DPS weapons in Rainbow Six Siege

When choosing an operator for a round, players are always looking to equip the strongest weapons in Rainbow Six Siege. Be it their fire rate, damage per bullet, effective range, or ammo capacity, everything comes under consideration, during the drone/prep phase. Players also consider the maps and playstyle before choosing weapons or magnification sights.

This is because weapons in Rainbow Six Siege are a critical aspect of the game with a customizability factor, allowing for different tactical approaches to a single scenario found during a match. Be it a Nokk with a suppressed FMG-9 slowly creeping in closer to the bombsite or a Glaz with a muzzle brake on his OTS-03 rappeling on a window, different guns offer different playstyles.

In this article, we shall take a look at a Reddit post that calculates the damage per second and compiles a list of the highest DPS weapons in Rainbow Six Siege.

Note: this article is subjective, and some parts of it reflect the data from u/VadimG1288 on Reddit.

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Some of the top DPS weapons in Rainbow Six Siege

SMG-11 extended barrel provides the highest possible DPS in Rainbow Six Siege (Image via Ubisoft)

Before taking a look at the list it is important to note that distance to target and effectively damage falloff are not taken into consideration here. Neither is the time-to-kill mentioned anywhere, therefore making this list just a stat sheet of damage per second of the weapons in Rainbow Six Siege.

1. SMG-11 (extended barrel) - 740.8
2. SMG-11 - 677.3
3. F2 (extended barrel) - 669.7
4. SC3000K (extended barrel) - 666.7
5. Bearing 9 (extended barrel) - 659.9
6. R4-C (extended barrel) - 616.3
7. C8-SFW (extended barrel) - 613.8
8. M4 (extended barrel) - 612.5
9. Bearing 9 - 604.9
10. F2 - 604.3
11. SC3000K - 599.9
12. SMG-12 - 592.6
13. SPSMG9 (extended barrel) - 587.9
14. C75 Auto - 583.3
15. AK-12 - 566.6 / Type-89 - 566.6
16. PARA-308 (extended barrel) - 563.3
17. C7E - 559.9
18. R4-C - 558.9
19. C8-SFW - 558
20. 552 Commando (extended barrel) - 552

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SC3000K is among some of the attacker guns in Rainbow Six Siege (Image via Ubisoft)

SMGs like the SMG-11 and Bearing-9 are among some of the strongest secondary weapons in Rainbow Six Siege. They offer great fire rate and damage, albeit for short and somewhat medium ranges as they fall short in terms of recoil and overall damage drop-off.

SMGs usually have higher fire rates which gives them the edge over Assault Rifles in this list. However, in the game when these SMGs go head-to-head with the same Assault Rifles, the latter would come out on top at medium-long ranges thanks to the lower damage drop-off.

Therefore some top choices of weapons in Rainbow Six Siege as supported by this list are, R4-C, AK-12, SC3000K, SMG-11, Bearing-9, and SMG-12 among many others.

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