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Yamato
Delivers charged attacks with finesse

Yamato uses precise strikes to decimate her rivals. However, such damaging attacks often will leave her exposed, so she needs to make every shot count.

Yamato
Delivers charged attacks with finesse

Yamato uses precise strikes to decimate her rivals. However, such damaging attacks often will leave her exposed, so she needs to make every shot count.

Description

New build made to have huge resists to fight against the insane shreds on this patch. Thanks to the insane buff to yamato now you have a strong ult, but you also need to do well outside of it. I'm pretty confident on this one being better this patch than the barriers one.

Play more aggresively on solo lanes, but be careful on duo lanes. Don't forget to farm and use your slash to secure kills during ult if possible.

Item Build
One of these two

item
Active
Healing Rite
500

Better for roaming around the map

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Extra Regen
500
Laning MUSTS

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Monster Rounds
500

Structures take less spirit damage, so you need your gun to do damage to them. Sell when short on slots.

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Melee Lifesteal
500

Early survivability and melee damage boost. Not necessary but useful if you need regen. Sold later for slots.

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Active
Restorative Locket
1250

Forced duo lanes make filling this easier. Pick early if bullied. Extra mobility also really neat! *Could* be sold very lategame for slots, but I don't recommend it

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Extra Stamina
500

New map really wants you to move around, and supstamina gives us good stats and more maneuverability

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Extra Spirit
500

Reliable spirit and regen in lane. If you have to stay back and focus on stealing, buy scavenger instead. Sold when short on slots.

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Spirit Strike
500

If you're short on flex slots, you can sell this, specially to get your last core spirit items

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Rapid Rounds
500

Lets you damage structures quickly now that spirit is less effective. Sprint Speed is good for moving around the map too!

Laning situationals

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Restorative Shot
500

good against poke-heavy enemies

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Hollow Point Ward
500

All duo lanes means you will be under the health threshold more often. Still a good item, but it's hard to keep it working.

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Mystic Reach
500

Can be bought instead of OR along with Extra Spirit if you want the QoL of longer 2 early

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Ammo Scavenger
500

For lanes where you need to stay back and deny more than push.

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Enduring Spirit
500

If you don't need Healing Rite or Extra Regen you can buy this and hold onto it for some time

Core items

1-2 flex slots needed only

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Kinetic Dash
1250

With the nerf to spirit damage to structures, buying this over mystic shot is recommendable

item
Torment Pulse
3000

Applies MysVuln if picked. Helps a lot with farming camps. You reaaaaally want this.

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Soul Shredder Bullets
1250

Don't forget to shoot your target to get the benefits of the amp and lifesteal!

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Healing Booster
1250

Less LS options and no antiheal on ult makes picking this very mandatory now. Buy when you have T2 3

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Healbane
1250

Absolutely needed, and the upgrade to leech makes it even more necessary.

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Superior Stamina
3500

New map requires moving around, SupStam gives good stats on top of mobility. Try learning advanced movement.

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Mystic Reverb
6000

Imbue on 1. Lifesteal, spirit resist and range, and now does 50% of the skill damage in area!

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Berserker
1250

Honetsly since the nerf i've been buying it later but Frenzy gives too much value to skip this

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Improved Burst
3500

Insane value and powerspike

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Bullet Armor
1250

Evens out your resists out of ult. You can buy spirit armor instead if somehow the entire enemy team is running it.

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Mystic Vulnerability
1250

If you cant fit in punches, you can sell spirit strike for this. If many people on your team are buying it, buy something else.

Late/Sometimes Needed

Not in order, read annotations!!

item
Active
Decay
1250

good in comps with enemies that have lots of LS or can sustain themselves well

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Debuff Reducer
1250

Good against Pocket/Infernus comps, and teams with too many CCs.

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Active
Debuff Remover
4250

Cleanses statuses and heals when you don't have ult.

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Inhibitor
6000

Makes 1v1s easier, also makes you take even less damage when you're in ult. Your best choice if you're behind to keep having pressence.

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Leech
7250

Better Healbane, and also gives you lifesteal you lost with the 3 lanes update. Very good as your second T4.

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Frenzy
7250

Helps with survivability against gun heavy teams, but has fallen off recently.

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Soul Rebirth

Make them suffer twice (three times with your ult, tho)

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Crippling Headshot
6000

Really great stats, pick if the enemy has A LOT of resists

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Spiritual Overflow
6000

Good T4 that lets you become more hybrid and have a decent gun too.

item
Active
Refresher
6000

For longer ult presence. Good as a second T4 option if you can finish the game quick after buying. Maybe even a 3rd

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Improved Cooldown
1250

very lategame to get more 1s and faster pulses. buy only if you can spare the souls

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Superior Cooldown
4250

Imbue 1

Very situational items

Read annotations. Experimentals have (E).

item
Mystic Shot
1250

If your playstle has you near enemies more often, buy this instead of berserker

item
Active
Cold Front
1250

CF is dead long live CF! You can still get this but I don't think it's worth it for camps anymore

item
Active
Slowing Hex
1750

If you can spare the souls, this lets you further shut down enemies running away and gives back some lifesteal you "lost" with the 3 lanes update

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Spirit Armor
1250

Despite this build's 30% SpiRes out of ult, if its very late and all the damage you take is spirit, you can take this

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Improved Spirit Armor
4250
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Improved Bullet Armor
4250

If somehow all the damage you take is still gun, take this

item
Active
Return Fire
1750

fight against bullet heavy comps

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Active
Metal Skin
3000

fight against bullet heavy comps

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Spirit Lifesteal
1250
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Duration Extender
1250

Not played rn but still useful

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Superior Duration
4250

Imbue on your ult

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Spirit Snatch
3500

Slot filler when you have a lot of spirit, but also has great value imho

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Improved Spirit
3500

Late game if you're strong and want to deal even more damage. If they have too much SpiritRes, it's not worth it

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Boundless Spirit
9500
item
Spellslinger Headshots
4250

"im 45k and idk what to buy" item. apparently it gives the buffs on SSB ON TOP of the buffs of this item, so the amp and heal are doubled

Updated: 16/Feb/25

Ability Point Order

Power Slash

Flying Strike

Crimson Slash

Shadow Transformation

1

2

5

1

2

1

2

5

1

2

5

5