“Lord” Tachanka has always been a meme in Rainbow Six Siege. The operator is considered the weakest in the entire game, and even his rework hasn’t changed that much. However, after a recent buff, he seems to be quite acceptable – at least for a crazy YouTuber.
Who is the YouTuber? BikiniBodhi has been creating content about Rainbow Six for many years and is one of the largest and most well-known YouTubers for the game. His channel now has over 1.64 million subscribers.
With his videos, he provides guides and interesting info, such as about an important change to the reinforcements. However, completely absurd situations often come together – like in his latest video, which highlights the operator Tachanka.
This is how strong Tachanka is now: In his video, BikiniBodhi shows how he really clears out with Tachanka. The operator has a new gadget since his rework, allowing him to throw fire grenades.
These create a fire on the ground that deals damage to both enemies and allies. The gadget is actually meant to deny a certain area. However, Bodhi uses the fire zones in a completely different way.
He ignites an area and then just walks through. The enemies don’t expect someone to be so foolish and get taken out one by one. They apparently expect that the enemy wants to force them to take another path and are surprised. He even sends his teammates through the fire for kills. Bodhi himself says: “Dude, this works so often!”
He also uses the fire grenades to simply burn particularly pesky enemies like Blitz or Montagne. Both operators have a shield and are hard to hit – but are also quite slow.
Bodhi uses their lack of mobility to simply let them burn, sometimes sacrificing his teammates when they block the enemy. Still, this leads to victory.
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The strong buff after the (unintended) rework
This is the buff: Despite the rework, by the end of Season 4 of Year 5, Tachanka was one of the weakest operators. He received a significant buff with update Y6S1.3 (via GameStar).
Virtually everything Tachanka can do has been improved:
- The capacity of his fire grenades has been increased
- Projectiles fly further and faster
- The detonation time has been reduced
- Fire zones last longer and are larger
- Tachanka’s main weapon can be equipped and unequipped faster
As it looks with BikiniBodhi, the buff has achieved the desired effect. However, Bodhi is also one of the best players overall. Don’t assume that you can now easily slaughter all enemies – it still takes practice.
What has changed about Tachanka? Originally, Tachanka did not have a grenade launcher but a machine gun with a shield and a stand. He could set up and dismantle the gun, but was extremely stationary and virtually immobile.
The rework came in 2020, after Tachanka had been at the absolute bottom of the statistics for a while. During that time, however, a certain fan base had already developed that did not want to see their beloved “Lord” changed.
Despite his weakness, some players repeatedly turned to Tachanka. 200 players even started a petition against the rework.
