Yamato

Yamato
Initial Stats
Weapon
"Sister's Lament"
DPS	70
Bullet Damage	5.65
Ammo	12 (x0.15)
Bullets per sec	2.5
Light Melee	69
Heavy Melee	128
Falloff Range	22 → 46m
Vitality
Health	500
Health Regen	2
Bullet Resist	0%
Spirit Resist	0%
Move Speed	8 m/s
Sprint Speed	0 m/s
Stamina	3
Power Increases
+0.50 Base Bullet Damage
+3.4 Base Melee Damage
+31 Base Health

“

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 (real name Kaori) is a close-range assassin using precise strikes and sword attacks to destroy her foes. Conducting a Flying Strike with her grapple to get close, Yamato unleashes her powerful melee attacks along with Power Slash and Crimson Slash attacks to damage, slow, and disable her enemies while healing herself. Once fully engaged, she can unleash her Shadow Transformation to become infused with a shadow soul, becoming unkillable and unstoppable for a short time while ending the life of her opponents.

Kaori and her brother Yamato were crime lords of the Seventh Moon, bringing in wealth and power to the organization. However, a dispute during expansion led to the death of Kaori's brother and her escape to the United States. A miscommunication once she arrived led to Kaori adopting her brother's name, Yamato, vowing to secure her family's name once again.

Abilities

Power Slash

Channel to increase damage over 1.4 seconds, then release a fully-charged sword strike. Press [1] or [LMB] to trigger the strike early, dealing partial damage.

Cooldown:

8.5s

Full Charge Damage: 160 (x2)

Slash Length: 25m

1 • Gain +60% Bullet Resist While channeling

2 • Apply 40% movement slow for 3s

5 • +200 Full Charge Damage

Flying Strike

Throw a grappling hook to reel yourself towards an enemy, damaging and slowing the target when you arrive.

Range:

20m

Cooldown:

21s

Damage: 70 (x0.7)

Movement Slow: 30%

Slow Duration: 2.5s

1 • +25% Movement Slow

2 • +20m Cast Range

5 • +6 Weapon Damage for 10s after striking the target

Crimson Slash

Slash enemies in front of you, damaging them and slowing their fire rate. If any enemy heroes are hit, you heal.

Range:

13m

Cooldown:

11.5s

Damage: 60 (x0.4)

Heal on Hero Hit: 70 (x1.1)

Fire Rate Slow: 30%

1 • +30% Fire Rate Slow

2 • +10% Max Health Heal on Hero Hit

5 • -5.75s Cooldown

Shadow Transformation

Become infused with Yamato's shadow soul. After an initial invincible transformation, your abilities are refreshed and are 60% faster, your weapon has infinite ammo, and you gain damage resists and immunity to negative status effects. You are unable to die in this mode.

Cooldown:

106s

Duration: 5s

Ability Speed: +60%

Spirit & Bullet Resist: +40%

1 • -28s Cooldown

2 • +4m/s Move Speed

5 • +1.5s Duration

Background

“

A FATE'S TALE:

犯罪組織のボスの家に生まれたカオリと兄のヤマトは、 父の死後、セブンスムーンの運営を引き継ぐ運命に あることをずっと自覚していた。彼らは何年もの間、 二頭体制で組織を運営し、利益と成功をもたらし、 アメリカへの進出も計画していた。

計画は単純だった。カオリは日本に残って国内を 統制し、ヤマトはアメリカに渡り国際的な拠点を 作るはずだった。兄妹にとって不運だったのは、 カオリが日本で指揮をとるという計画を快く 思わない部下たちがいたことだった。

反逆は迅速かつ暴力的だった。ヤマトが命を犠牲に してカオリを守ったおかげで、カオリは一握りの 部下たちと共に日本からアメリカへ逃れることができた。

アメリカに到着したカオリとその一行を迎え入れたのは、 ヤマトを出迎えるはずの人物だった。その男は 日本人の名前には馴染みがなく、カオリのことを 「ヤマト」と呼んだ。カオリは間違いを正そうかと思ったが、 兄を記憶に留める最善の方法は、自分がヤマトの 名前を受け継ぎ、彼の夢をかなえることだと決意した。

“

A FATE'S TALE:

Born into a family of crime bosses, Kaori and her brother Yamato always knew they were destined to take over control of the Seventh Moon after their father's death. Together they ran the organization for years, bringing it profit and success, and even planning an expansion into America.

The plan was simple: Kaori would remain in Japan to control the country, while Yamato would travel to America to establish an international base. Unfortunately for the siblings, some of their subordinates were not happy about Kaori's plan to take command in Japan.

The rebellion was swift and violent. Yamato sacrificed his life to protect Kaori, and Kaori was saved by a handful of loyal members.

Together with her subordinates, she managed to escape from Japan to the United States. When Kaori and her group arrived in the United States, they were greeted by the man was supposed to greet the Yamato. He was not familiar with Japanese names and did not know Kaori.

"Yamato." Kaori thought about correcting his mistake, but...

She decided that the best way to remember her brother was to take on the Yamato name and make his dream come true.

Update history

Patch	Changes
Update: September 12, 2024	- Ammo now Scales with spirit power (x0.15). - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Power Slash Damage Reduced: 170 → 160. -File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Grapple Post cast duration Reduced: 0.5 → 0.2. - Alt fire now fixed to work with conditional damage sources (point blank, pristine emblem, etc). - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation Bullet and spirit resistance Reduced: 55% → 40%. - Can now interrupt File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Power Slash With parry.
Update: August 29, 2024	- File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Power Slash Max damage time requirement Reduced: 1.5s → 1.4s. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Power Slash Collision radius Reduced by 8%. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Crimson Slash Radius Increased: 12m → 13m. - Fixed being able to die during File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation If hit by File:MM.png [[]]Grey Talon's File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Guided Owl. - Fixed some cases where File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Flying Strike Could get into a stuck state. - Fixed some cases where File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Crimson Slash Would appear to be cast when it wasn't.
Update: August 15, 2024	- Base melee damage Increased by 10%. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Flying Strike T3 Now procs after the ability ends, rather than when connecting to the target. - Bullet damage growth Increased: 0.4 → 0.5.
Update: August 01, 2024	- Fixed crosshair sometimes being stuck for Yamato after File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Flying Strike was interrupted. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Power Slash Collision Size Reduced by 10%. - Bullet Damage Growth Increased: 0.4 → 0.5.
Update: July 11, 2024	- File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation Damage resistance Reduced: 70% → 55%. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation Changed: 70% Debuff Resistance → Unstoppable.
Update: June 27, 2024	File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Power Slash Damage Reduced: 175 → 170. - Can now cancel File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Flying Strike. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation Damage and debuff resistance Reduced: 80% → 70%. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation Duration Increased: 4.5s → 5s. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation T3 Increased: +1s → +1.5s.
Update: June 23, 2024	- File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation Now causes you to be unable to die during the buff.
Update: June 20, 2024	- File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation Now provides 80% Damage Resistance and 80% Debuff Resistance instead of invulnerability during the post-channel buff. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation Cooldown Reduced: 110s → 100s. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation T3 Increased: +1s → +1.5s.
Update: June 13, 2024	- Fixed File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Crimson Slash Visual direction being wrong sometimes. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Power Slash T3 Bonus damage Reduced: +210 → +200. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation Cooldown Increased: 100s → 110s.
Update: May 30, 2024	- File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Power Slash Spirit scaling Increased: (x1.6) → (x2.0). - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Power Slash No longer does a very minor movement on enemies hit. - Fixed File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Power Slash Sometimes not being a full charge when channeled fully during the File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation Ability speedup now affects the post-cast durations as well. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation Ability speedup now improves the visual animations (cosmetic only change).
Update: May 23, 2024	- Shadow Explosion Renamed: Shadow Explosion → File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation and reworked into a new ability. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation No longer has radius impact behavior. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation Now gives you 4.5s of invulnerability after the initial 2s invulnerable channel period. You transform and refresh your abilities, improving ability speeds by 60% and gaining unlimited ammo. "Ability Speeds" affects File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Power Slash cast time, File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Flying Strike flying time, and File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Crimson Slash cast time. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation Cooldown Increased: 90s → 100s. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation T2 Is now +4 m/s during Shadow Form. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Transformation T3 Is now +1s Duration.
Update: May 16, 2024	- File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Shadow Explosion Cooldown Reduced: 120s → 90s.
Update: May 10, 2024	- - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Crimson Slash Cooldown Reduced: 13s → 11s. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Power Slash Physics/world collision Reduced: 15 → 4 (allowing it to be more easily used near objects). - Shadow Explosion Radius Increased: 14m → 16m. - Shadow Explosion Fire rate and spirit buff duration Increased: 15s → 20s. - Shadow Explosion T3 Spirit bonus Increased: +10% → +15%. - Shadow Explosion T3 Fire rate bonus Increased: +5% → +10%.
Update: May 03, 2024	- Removed the slow climbing vertical recoil on Yamato's alt fire. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Crimson Slash Radius Increased: 11m → 12m. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Crimson Slash Fire rate slow duration Increased: 3s → 4s. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Crimson Slash T2 Changed: -5s Cooldown → 10% Max Health heal on hero hit. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Crimson Slash T3 Changed: 12% Max Health on hero hit → -6s Cooldown. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Power Slash T1 Bullet resist Increased: 40% → 60%. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Flying Strike Cooldown Reduced: 35s → 20s. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Flying Strike T2 Changed: -15s Cooldown → +20m Cast Range. - File:.png [[#Abilities|]] Flying Strike Range no longer scales with Spirit. - Shadow Explosion Bonus Spirit per victim Increased: 10 → 15. - Shadow Explosion Bonus fire rate per victim Increased: 5 → 10. - Shadow Explosion Buff Duration Increased: 8s → 15s.

Trivia

• Yamato's design in the Early Development Build of Deadlock is temporary and based on an alien model from when the game was still called Neon Prime.
• Yamato's current voicelines are not fluent Japanese and are actually a bit off in terms of word choice and pronunciation.