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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

Shoot your gun edition

Tank / Heavy Spirit damage build for Yamato. Early focus on damage into survivability/frontline.

Item Build

#Citadel_HeroBuilds_EarlyGame

Lane Chungus

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Close Quarters

Gun Investment (Can Skip)

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Rebuttal

Billy / Abrams / Shiv. Good for baiting parry or parrying out of ult for damage amp. (Giga Slashes)

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2 + Lifestrike + Point Blank + Cold front makes them unable to move.

Defensives

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Active

Dispel Magic

Cleanse, silences, debuffs (Djinns Mark, Fixation, Afterburn, etc.) Use before Crimson Slash if you are anti-healed.

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Counterspell

Lash Ult, Rem Ult, Infernus Ult, generally just a good panic damage block/heal.

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Spirit Resilience

Heavy spirit damage (Infernus, Seven, Lash, Mina)

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Active

Metal Skin

Pure gun damage (Warden, Venator, Vyper, Haze) Tip: Use after Haze uses sleep otherwise she can wait it out.

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Arctic + Express shot adds giga burst on M2. Use Gun to shred and take obj.

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Active

Colossus

9.6k with giga sustain on 3 max

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Leech

Replace Lifestrike

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Transcendent Cooldown

Almost all your items have cooldowns. Better for Torment Pulse than boundless.

Late Game Choice

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Boundless Spirit

Buffs all your damage.

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Plated Armor

Enemy guns have on-hit effects like Fixation, Afterburn, Toxic Bullets, etc.

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Spellbreaker

Counter item for Pocket, Lash, Sinclair, Talon, etc.

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IV

Active

Refresher

Rejuv or Game winning fight. Duration on your ult gives you 20 seconds of uptime.

Situationals and Alternatives

the 'LIGHTBRINGER' category

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Enchanter's Emblem

Nice stats all around.

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Reactive Barrier

Only sell if super slotlocked, scales very well.

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Healing Booster

Buffs all your healing sources (Healbane, Crimson Slash, Ult Kills) and finishes 4.8k Green. Only sell really late.

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Bullet Resilience

Only buy if they have shitloads of shred.

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Active

Phantom Strike

Counter item for Flyers + disarms (Vindicta, Lash, Holiday, Celeste).

Deadlock Item

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Witchmail

Good vs Torment Pulse (Shiv, Billy, Mo, Victor) or ability spammers / AoE spirit (Dash Infernus for e.g.)

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Active

Spirit Sap

Early Infernus/Mina/Spirit hero counter. Don't build focus lens.

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Suppressor

Early anti gun (Replaces Extra/Improved Spirit)

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Superior Duration

One of Yamato's best items late game because of actives/debuffs

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Radiant Regeneration

This item is actually really good if they don't have a lot of anti heal.

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Imbue [E]

Mystic Reverb

Unsure where to slot this

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Spirit Burn

Sell Torment Pulse. Best Healing Reduction in the game, get earlier in case there are big healers on the enemy team.

Ability Point Order

Power Slash

Flying Slash

Crimson Slash

Shadow Transformation

1

2

1

2

5

1

2

5

1

2

5

5

1

1

2

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