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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

My own flavour of Ronald's build, with my own insights.

With the way the game works now, your best interest is
to have many spirit items but also spend some
money on vitality items to get a big HP pool,
which this build aims to focus on.

I'm on the official Discord, if you have any questions

Item Build

Laning MUSTS

Laning Heals

Don't get more than 1

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Restorative Shot

Trustworthy and consistent healing

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Healing Rite

Good for running moving around the map and gets good healing.

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Melee Lifesteal

Early survivability and good healing if you can fit in punches

Laning Others

For specific situations

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Spirit Strike

Good for adding pressure in lane if you can fit in some punches. Buy somewhat early

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Rebuttal

If you're good at parries pick it on punchy lanes

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Sprint Boots

Good for moving quicker, doing boxes and healing while doing so

Essentials

2 flex

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Kinetic Dash

Good for pushing objectives and taking camps. You can sell this for late game options

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Return Fire

Prevalent gun teams mean you will likely need this

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Torment Pulse

Small ticks of damage that keep adding up

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Imbue

Compress Cooldown

Imbue 3 for more healing, imbue 4 if a fight is close and your ult is on CD

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Superior Cooldown

Reduces cooldowns significantly, both of skills and items like TP.

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Imbue

Mystic Reverb

Imbue on 1. Gives liefsteal as well as giving damage and slow in a radius, that's pretty good

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Spirit Snatch

Good if you can get in punches consistantly, otherwise pick Silence Wave

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Refresher

Longer ult presence, good for big carry gameplay. The combo is Slash, Ult, Slash, Refresh, Slash, Ult, Slash!

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Tankbuster

You get this when enemies start to have 2.5~3k HP

Mid Others

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Healing Booster

If you think you need more healing

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Healbane

Great buy against Shiv and heroes with lots of healing

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Counterspell

Parry fucking EVERYTHING. OP AS HELL. Get good with this because you will get a lot of use. If you feel you're not good enough for it, buy one of the T3 alternatives

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Debuff Reducer

When you're getting tons of debuffs from the enemy team

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Debuff Remover

Compulsory late game for cleansing statuses out of ult, also gives you flat HP

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Decay

cheap spirit burn for one person + flat HP

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Spirit Sap

Good for your spirit. If you get lots of debuffs and enemy isnt too spirit resist heavy, consider debuff remover instead

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Silence Wave

Silencing and reducing spirit resist and power, very strong

Late Game Options

Read descriptions

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Spirit Burn

Remove their healing and do more damage.

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Juggernaut

Against gun heavy enemies. This basically reduces their DPS by 40%.

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Crippling Headshot

Pick against enemies with insane ammounts of resists

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Diviner's Kevlar

For extra ult survivability

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Witchmail

Pick against teams with lots of quick spirit damage so your cooldowns just are always up.

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Spellbreaker

If the enemy has a big spirit burst hero, you should prio this before other T4s or as your 3rd T4.

Testing

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Fortitude

Keeps you tanky and gives you good map presence.

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Restorative Locket

Spirit scaling and the +2 stamina on cast are great for popping after ult, but its range is lacking nowadays.

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Enduring Speed

One of the few items giving move speed, may be better than stamina atp.

02/07/25

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Ability Point Order

Power Slash

Flying Strike

Crimson Slash

Shadow Transformation

1

2

5

1

2

1

2

5

5

1

2

5