Yamato

Yamato
Initial Stats
Weapon
"Sister's Lament"
DPS	71
Bullet Damage	5.65
Ammo	13 (x0.15)
Bullets per sec	2.5
Reload Time	2.44 s
Bullet Velocity	254 m/s
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
+0.45 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.

Yamato's gun has an alt-fire mode.

Abilities

Power Slash

8.5s

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

x2

160

Full Charge Damage

25m

Slash Length

1

Gain +60 Bullet Resist while channeling

2

Apply 40% movement slow for 3s

5

+200 Full Charge Damage

Flying Strike

20m

21s

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

x0.655

70

Damage

30%

Movement Slow

2.5s  Slow Duration

1

+25% Movement Slow

2

+20m Cast Range

5

+6 Weapon Damage for 10s after striking the target

Crimson Slash

13m

11.5s

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

x0.393

60

Damage

x1.11

70

Heal on hero hit

20%

Fire Rate Slow

4s  Debuff Duration

1

+30% Fire Rate Slow

2

+10% of Max Health Heal on hero hit

5

-5.75s Cooldown

Shadow Transformation

4.5s

106s

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

4.5s

Duration

60%

Ability Speed

40%  Spirit Resist

40%  Bullet Resist

1

-28s Cooldown

2

+4m Move Speed

5

+2s Duration

Weapon

Weapon Stats	Falloff Range 22m - 46m 71 DPS
Sister's Lament
Spreadshot Close Range

Background

“

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.

— A FATE'S TALE

Update history

Main article: Update history

Update	Changes
September 26, 2024	Bullet damage growth reduced from 0.5 to 0.45 Crimson Slash fire rate slow reduced from 30% to 20%. Yamato: Fixed various issues with Flying Strike pathing. Shadow Transformation duration reduced from 5s to 4.5s. Shadow Transformation T3 duration increased from +1.5s to +2s. Shadow Transformation no longer provides unlimited ammo. Fixed some issues with Crimson Slash effect not appearing reliably. Updated Flying Strike effects to reduce some visual noise. Improved read on the connecting rope for Flying Strike and reduced visual obstruction of the ending slash.
September 12, 2024	Ammo now scales with Spirit Power (0.15). Power Slash damage reduced from 170 to 160. Grapple post cast duration reduced from 0.5 to 0.2. Alt fire now fixed to work with conditional damage sources (point blank, pristine emblem, etc). Shadow Transformation bullet and spirit resistance reduced from 55% to 40%. Can now interrupt Power Slash with parry.
August 29, 2024	Power Slash max damage time requirement reduced from 1.5s to 1.4s. Power Slash collision radius reduced by 8%. Crimson Slash radius increased from 12m to 13m. Fixed being able to die during Shadow Transformation if hit by Grey Talon's Owl. Fixed some cases where Flying Strike could get into a stuck state. Fixed some cases where Crimson Slash would appear to be cast when it wasn't.

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.
• Yamato and Haze are currently the only heroes whose Ammo is directly affected by Spirit Power.
• Yamato is the only hero who doesn't have the default melee attack damage of 63 (light) and 116 (heavy) - instead, Yamato has 69 (light) and 128 (heavy).