How NOT to ROAM Against Good Players || Rainbow Six Siege Tips 

You can be rewarded for the enemies lack of skill and you can be rewarded for your own skill. But what makes the difference is that you can always rely on your own skill. You can't always rely on the enemy team's lack of skill.

7:52 “Right there, we’re going to freeze it. My mindset, right now...” wiLL i eVeR HiT tHiS dRoNe?

The only job you have as a a roamer is to waste time. Say for example you waste 2 minutes of the enemy's time, they can't just forget about you and go and plant the defuser, because they will be flanked, but they can't just hold angles on you until the game is over either. God damn this fucking game has so much depth i love it

This video is seems to be an indicator of your growth in this game. Last year you said R6 is a game where your opponents will make mistakes and its up to you to play on that. Now you're saying that you shouldn't rely on that because it only gets you so far.

There are 3 playstyles for roamers: 1. Map roamer - runs around the whole map - denies movement through key rooms (e.g. corridors, key rooms, entry points, etc) 2. Objective roamer - stays in rooms near the obj, usually with direct entryways to the objective - acts a little like a mobile anchor - puts pressure on enemies trying to push against anchors on obj 3. Lurker - finds a hiding spot and waits - sneaks up on enemies from behind - works with the element of surprise Map roamers put pressure on enemies moving through the map, forcing them to waste time being too cautious Objective roamers try to prevent anchor counters from using their abilities (e.g. hibana blowing up black mirrors) Lurker works well if you know where to hide, away from drones, as well as when to move

Main words : resistance, unpredictability, but don't greed

3:47 “WhY aRe YoU cRoUchEd LiKe a SiLveR”

How to roam: Pick The Lord, go outside deploy turret. “Come get it enemy team” 🤯

“LITERALLY, my name is get flanked” haahah

How to roam ...... go tachanka and crawl everywhere they never stand a chance

Look at that old hatch reinforcement animation

„I think roaming is great“ Enemy: *pulls out Jackal*

So satisfying to see ash get killed first🔥

I’m more of an anchor like smoke, lesion, doc or meastro Do a video on how not to anchor Luv dis vid

Great deconstruction of the difference between two player levels. THIS is what should be on the "How to be Diamond" videos. It's a truly different mindset. Droning more, learning how to hold angles, peaker's advantage, map knowledge, etc -- those are all, let's be real, rather basic concepts for the Siege playerbase and THEY ARE NOT going to take you anywhere near Plat. You'll be lucky to get out of silver solo-queueing. The difference in mindset is ultimately a result of how each player experiences the game. Probably 90% of all people playing Siege, their instinctive play style is uber-cautious turtle-mode. When you first start out, you get caught off-guard ALL THE DAMN TIME. Since you die so quickly in Siege, reacting is out of the question. You have to know about things before they happen. So you realize that if you're going to win, you have to get the drop on the enemy. But your mindset never actually changes. The same cowering and hiding habits that made you an easy target in the beginning are still there. All of your success relies on surprise (hiding, holding angles, peaks and runouts) and the cluelessness of the enemy (no drones, no coordination, no challenges). There are no Gold players. Rather, the gold ranks are a land of trial and tribulation. Some may ascend to the other side of Platinum through their own skill or more likely by getting boosted by other teammates. Many will fall back to Gold or be in constant fear of de-ranking. If they solo-queue enough, they will reach their true rank of Silver. THE LIFE STORY OF A SILVER When you first start out, you get caught off-guard ALL THE DAMN TIME. Somebody holds some pixel peak on you and they kill you. You sprint out of spawn and get killed. You get killed by runouts and peaks. You enter a room and they're hiding in the corner and they kill you. Somebody does an Ash Rush and they kill you while you're still putting up a wall reinforcement. They always get the drop on you. So then you realize that if you're going to win, you have to get the drop on THEM. So you start holding pixel peaks. You learn some peaks and runouts. You start camping entrances from above or below the floor. And you get kills and you start winning more. If you play in a 5-stack, you probably start winning enough matches where you start to play against players that are actually good. And they start pre-firing all the spawnpeaks and pre-firing common holds and droning you out. They're not clueless and they're not making stupid mistakes, so you never get any kills and you lose. All your previous victories came from taking advantage of an enemy's weakness, but what happens when they're not weak? You are nullified each round. You do nothing for your team, and people start getting toxic because they're worried about de-ranking.

if you close your eyes it sounds like hes giving a ted talk

But what if my enemies watched this video too?!! Thanks for 300 likes!! Didn’t expect this

“LITERALLY, my name is get flanked' 1:36 "AlwaysRaging is playing Siege" LMAO

Great vid, and spot on observation. I might be the only one but I’d like to see more of this exact R6 theory, more content, more examples etc. Because in watching this one vid I feel like I’ve got more to think about, act on and practice than maybe a dozen of your others that I really like. While it does take a bunch of skill to get to this realization regarding roaming, it more importantly takes real insight with regards to your weaknesses which anyone who has ever “mastered” anything in life will affirm, is a very strong sign that you’re actually growing in the skill you’re working to master. Maybe do an on going mini series titled “Roaming; Come and Get It Style”! I’m actually really excited to have something new to focus on while playing tonight and tomorrow etc. Thank you for the insight that likely took you years to realize! Pretty cool gift, I appreciate it.

as a (vigil/ela) roamer i go where i think the enemy will be coming from i either stall and waste their times or take some of them with me causing as much damage as i can. when i play cav i lurk in some corner try and find that one guy pushing alone and get the interrogation and it usually gets the round if my team can get those kills. I'm plat 2 that cav thing still works but depends on the enemy team skill.

Talk about a slap in the face!! Just what I needed to hear!! Thanks Get_Flanked!!!!

I do agree with you I think more roamers need to play for map control and stalling time instead of going for the easy kills, instead it’s best to let the attackers know where you are, and then out play them for the kills, or rotate to a position which allows you to get the kill. Or if you wanna play even more passive don’t go for kills at all and make them fight to kill you, and use their aggressiveness and need to kill you as a way to ruin there final attack. Stuff like that is what people need to do, rather than flanking at the last second, play for control of the map, and make the attackers deal with you and if they don’t bite them in the ass.

There it is!! maybe I’ve been playing like that all this time because I dropped from plat 2 to gold 3 last season. I do solo queue which was part of it but I’m gonna focus on this when I play next time...great vid flanked

“literally my name is get flanked, thats how i wanna play” lmaooo

Out of all of Flanked’s videos this is the one that has helped me the most. I fall into that bad habit a ton and i feel like thats why ive been stuck at mid plat to high gold for multiple seasons. Great content as always and greatly appreciate you making this vid. It is a mental reinforcement that I desperately needed.

When you’re already plat 2 and know how to roam but you just watch the video because it’s get_flanked

I'm a noob at this game since I started a couple of days ago and came across your channel. Your tips have been helping in getting better and giving me map awareness.

Probably your best video yet! For the past days I’ve been having a lot of problems with my roams, and I believe you showed me exactly why! I am in Gold 3 but I’ve started to see a lot of low and mid plats against me lately; and that has been happening to me. Thank you!

Ur one of my favorite r6 youtubers because i feel like i can relate to you more than others. You point out problems in the game, u speak ur mind about how certain ops are and how balanced they are and id say 90% of the time i, along with everyone else, agrees with you. Keep ur the good work man, ur doin good!

Yo flanked the hype from the stream is real this was an amazing video and I’m gonna start implementing this right away 👌

Very insightful video here, I especially like how you point out the flaws in your own gameplay. The "what not to do" aspect really opened my eyes as to how I've been roaming, because that's essentially exactly what I do, and it's honestly a flawed way of thinking the more I look at it.

This was a great video! I showed this to my friend who is trying to get in this game! Keep growing the community

Solid tips, I appreciate you constant tips and tricks for siege, and your vids are awesome, thank you Flanked

When you roam, you are supposed to distract the enemy and take time off the clock

This helped me fix my mistakes a lot. Thanks Flanked!

i can't thank you enough for making such a high quality content that really helps the community . litteraly better than click-bait-tk-in rank-stupid-funny videos .

Great timing, i did terrible today and your video will help as always

Honestly this is what I think I needed, thank you @Get_Flanked btw I played against you the other day, gg wp.

Thanks so much for this video! Really missed your tip videos. They're really helpful. Please keep making more like these.👍

Outstanding video, everything you talked about was very well thought out! Love it!!

3:45 "why are you crouching like a silver" 😂😂

As a high silver low gold this video is invaluable. Thank you so much!

Great video again dude, video after video it’s just amazing content. This is what I’m going through right now as mainly a roamer trying to make it absolute hell on attackers making their way to obj. Your videos are helping my fight through a platinum mindset and getting towards a diamond mindset. Thank you

Great info GF! As always makes me evaluate my level of play and institute new techniques in order to improve!

Its amazing how this dude explains r6 like a game of chess theres more than just playing the game thats crazy

Plat 1 still works for me lol. Just gotta know the good spots and where people will not likely drone. Then move after their attention is drawn to a friend

Hit the nail on the head with that one. As I've gone up in rank, my effectiveness in roaming has decreased significantly. I was thinking something along the lines of shallow roaming, but your explanation really helped me understand. I'm putting it to in practice ASAP. Thank you

Great video, I’ve seen just about everything there is on youtube about this game and this is one of the only ones that I have seen that has actually resonated with me and is something I can use to improve my own play style. I play in low plat elo and had always done the deep dark corner thing getting to that rank because it used to work really well against lower ranks which is the reason it has been so hard to change the mindset. I ended up switching over to playing a hard anchor all the time because roaming wasnt working out as well for me in this elo.

Can you make a switching angles tutorial especially after being droned out? It is something I've had to learn in my transition from high gold to plat 3

I suck at roaming because most of the times i just don't know where to go and where to wait

Firts time I see this properly adressed. Great video!

Excellent vid. Recently came across the same realisation that trying to hide when roaming was just getting me trapped in a hole that I simply couldn't make an big impact from unless someone aimlessly wandered in. Good to have a way of training myself out of this haibt.

"good roamer" " Doesn't reinforce walls" "Teamate gets killed through unreinforced wall" "Bruh u suck"

Man, that Twitch was gunning for an Ace.

saw a lot of videos, but this one is an eye-opener. Thanks!

I haven't played Rainbow Six Siege in about 2 months maybe but man I still appreciate this video so much. I definitely want to play Siege again and I think this is one of those things I've really struggled with. I've watched so many tips videos, played a ton and still I've never even gotten to platinum, just higher gold and that wasn't consistent either. I don't feel like a terrible player but I don't feel that good either which gets discouraging. Thank you for showing the successful round with the bad tactic and making it painfully clear why these things are so hard to identify at times. I feel like this mindset shift will help me in any multiplayer game

I started playing this game again this year, when i played this game before in like 2017 i thought i was good at roaming (classical gold mentality, i know), sat in dark corners as cav or jäger and did decently, positive win/loss & K/D and all, so it worked well enough to have me continue doing it. But after getting back into the game now i unlocked Lesion, and i heard he was good as a "shallow roamer", so i guessed i could do that, don't roam too far, and man it has worked well for me with almost 2.5 K/D with that guy and also carrying rounds (almost played him as much as my old fav roamers), also his gadget cemented the idea of gadgets being used for info gathering. It has worked out well for me when applying this to other roamers too. This video just reinforces that idea that challenging is better than playing peekaboo. I also barely played anchor before, i learned to respect that more since coming back, i always had my friends play anchor because i thought that because i had slightly better aim than them i should play the cooler role (i know, this sounds absolutely childish and stupid...but hey, i never said i was a pro). Let's hope i've learned my *lesion* and that i might get to plat some day. Not sorry about the pun.

3:45 “why are you crouched like a silver” ... who tf says that? 😂😂

Flanked, for a couple of months your videos haven’t been doing it for me. I still watch because I like you and want to support. THIS video right here is why I subscribe to your channel. Your best video in a long time and we need more of this and the pro and potato (despite it being one of your less performing series). You are spot on and I see this when I play against platinums and diamonds (I’m usually in gold). Valuable lessons for us all right here.

Keep up the good work your videos are super helpful and have definitely made me better

A roamer's biggest ally is the clock, and I think too many people put too much emphasis on the fragging aspect of roaming. I feel like as a roamer I have done my job if I can effectively waste half the enemy team's round trying to get rid of me, even if I don't kill them, or even if I die, if I waste 2 minutes of their round that they could be spending pushing the objective, I have done my job. I agree though, hiding and reappearing is a stupid strategy that lower level people use when teams are not communicating as well or as knowledgeable about flanking routes. Roamers are there to waste attacker time off site and delay their push or make taking the objective more challenging.

i think most ppl don't that roaming is just anchoring a room that is not the site :d

Such a good video. Helps a ton thanks man!

Great tips 👌🏻 this really gave me an idea of what I’m doing wrong and how to improve

What about an operator that clicks the ability button and one enemy dies, he has 3 of them

I feel like my roaming skill has deteriorated. I feel like I only do well when I really put my mindset to wasting time.

I'm new to your channel. I love the way that you teach. Its really nice to see other people's mistakes and learn from them.

One of the most helpful siege videos I've ever seen. Never thought of the whole "depending on enemy failure" kinda aspect. Thanks, time to become a God 😎

I think roaming with cav is different though beacause of silencestep you can surprise the enemy really well and run around fast to rotate

the reason why it doesnt work = drones in prep phase. most maps have 1-2 main choke points that connect the different floors/wings/areas (popular / safe rotation spots). drone placement in prep phase in those areas tells u everything. how many roamers, operators, where they goin etc. with jackal all u have to do is enter near that area and scan him. hes dead in 30 sec. no jackal u drone him out, drone entry fraggers in, cut him off and also hold angles on main rotation/escape routes. if hes good he can waste some time and get 1-2 kills. most cases he walks into a angle that is being helt. u just roam cleared and defenders radius is cut to a 1/3, 1/4 of the map and u can start pressuring obj. Deep roams dont work vs good players/teams period. Yet playing off side holding down a chocke point or popular entry point is where its at. ideally ur a patient player that knows what angles are to ur advantage and understands how to reposition and not to peek everything. ur #1 goal is to delay the push / limit attackers radius and being a pain in the ass. kills are a plus. going to try to ace will get u killed within few seconds. a cool strat i like is to duo roam. even if u get killed ur buddy is able to kill trade. if u manage to kill 1-2 attackers and one of the 1-2 of the duo roamers survive u can start collapsing on the remaining attackers and flank / pressure them - thats what works in high ranks ps: ur chances to not get droned out / scanned so easy go up when u have good anchor players that know that they are supposed to reinforce hatches & they have to get on cams once the round starts so u have some counter intel and can make decision to take a fight or not (reposition / fall back)

Wow, this actually really helped me, deep roams in random places to flank was my thing, but I understand now the problems with it, thanks good video

Your going to get droned... that’s why I play vigil😉

@Get_Flanked, I got R6 a couple of weeks ago and I was really excited to get the game. I’m a Battlefield player myself and I got the game for a more tactical shooter. I watched most of yours and other people’s videos on tips and tricks but I still don’t get the hang of it. I have all the operators so that’s not a problem but it’s hard for me. I always get picked of quickly. Have any tips? Ur my fav siege yt so far👌 I’m a Xbox console player btw

This video was very very helpful, this is the exact area I need to improve on! Thank you

I believe this is ur best video yet. I learned soooo much

3:49 lmao

Too bad I’m stuck in silver lol

Dude that was awesome super helpful to me at least I subbed and turned on bell keep up the good work

You sir are a very good teacher, you are clear and concise. Keep doing what you are doing because it works super well, I learned a lot from this video and it has already helped me. Have a good one my man.

Holy shit I've just realised I might've played against flank before lol when he said my name is literally get flanked I like to roam I remembered making a joke to one of my mates when I saw someone in my lobby with that name about he must like roaming lol tbh probably just someone copying the name..... I'm now sad

You got lucky the enemy didn't flank you from behind instead of coming through the bedroom.

This video is going to help me a lot. I never realized how much I did this. Thanks

This is so useful, i never have roam, think that i am going to give it a try. It will be super useful a video like this but about staying in objective, the mindset needed for that.

im triggerd!!!!!!!!!!!! 0:05

"Deep dark corner" arent we all edgy :P

Wow Flanked! I was watching your channel for a while now, and in my opinion it's your best video so far. And the first one that i'm leaving a comment on. Because it's truly mind changing. I never thought about this before. Thank you for this one. Keep up with the good work man. Thank you again.

Helped me a lot, thanks! Great video

I would like to point out some things. I'm currently level 110 (not that experienced as you guys probably but I had a really hard time getting on siege. But now I win most of the rounds if I play as a team. My advice: -Roamers have the job to waist time, holding angles and hiding in good areas where there isn't alot of attacking spots to get flanked from - Making callouts where the enemy team spawned, where was the last location of one enemy? etc. (This is extremely important because sometimes you need to hold angles where there is a open window and you can be sure that the chance of a enemy being there is low) so I like to play a hybrid playstyle. -In the first round I try to analyze how the enemy plays. Slow playstyle? Rushing? Many drone use? Which combination do they run? (Breachers, etc.) - In Round 2,3 I usually get in to the mode of understanding how the enemy is playing so I switch between roaming and supporting /anker for my mates. -I create a small mini map in my mind where the enemy could appear from noises, camera spotting etc. I hope this helped some of you guys.

Get awnsered question should ela be able to withstand herself like zofia

You had a really good example, it was well chosen and even better explained!

I haven't been liking the video the last few weeks but this was great mindset I havent thought about. Cant wait to try some of this tomorrow night.

My mindset “Now how to put these to use on console” 🤔

Bro i’m silver, But my Friends are all plats and golds, so i play againts that type of teams

Great video, really good points made. Well done and thank you.

Congrats on 500k!!!😃😃

I admire your honesty and are grateful for your advice.

Thanks for your pure honesty and for the hardwork I apreciate it

Thats actually a verry helpful video, thank you man.

Omg that video helped me so much . Thank you

This is what a good quality guide sounds and looks like, thank you man. Being a plat player, improving is always beneficial