Yamato

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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
Weapon: "Sister's Lament" BASE STATS
Weapon Stats
DPS:	71
Bullet Damage:	5.65+0.35
Ammo:	12x0.15
Bullets per sec:	2.5
Reload Time:	2.44s
Bullet Velocity:	254m/s
Light Melee:	69+2.67
Heavy Melee:	128+4.95
Falloff Range:	20m → 46m
Vitality Stats
Health:	500+31
Health Regen:	2
Move Speed:	8.3m/s
Stamina:	3

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 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

10.5s

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

-2s Ability Cooldown and 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.

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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.

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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

5s

85s

Become infused with Yamato's shadow soul. After an initial invincible transformation, your abilities are refreshed and are 60% faster. You gain immunity to negative status effects and have greatly increased bullet and spirit resist.
When you get a hero kill, you heal and the duration is extended.

5s

Duration

60%

Ability Speed

15%

Max Health Heal

45%  Bullet Resist

45%  Spirit Resist

2s  Duration On Kill

1

+20% Fire Rate

2

+4m Move Speed

5

+3s Duration

Weapon

Weapon Stats	Falloff Range 20m - 46m 71 DPS
Sister's Lament
Spreadshot Close Range

Background

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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

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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 a man who was supposed to greet 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
November 21, 2024	Improved cases where Power Slash would hit enemies behind cover Shadow Transformation no longer heals on cast Shadow Transformation T3 increased from +2s to +3s Shadow Transformation now heals for 15% of your max hp on hero kill
November 13, 2024	Shadow Transformation Bullet and Spirit Resist reduced from 50% to 45% Shadow Transformation Heal reduced from 25% to 20% Shadow Transformation duration reduced from 5.5s to 5s
November 10, 2024	Shadow Transformation Bullet and Spirit Resist reduced from 60% to 50% Shadow Transformation Heal reduced from 30% to 25% Shadow Transformation duration reduced from 6s to 5.5s

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.
  • Yoshi has shared early concept art of Yamato's upcoming redesign (see below).
• Yamato's character model has different colors for her clothes compared to her portrait.
• 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).
• Yamato is the tallest hero in the game.
• Most of Yamato's lines are in Japanese, but she can also speak English.
  • Yamato's original voice actor wasn't a native Japanese speaker. This was changed after she was recast in the 2024-10-10 Update.

Gallery

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  Portrait
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  Minimap icon
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  In-game render
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  Model sheet
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  Weapon - Sister's Lament
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  Temporary minimap icon (2024-09-12 update)
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  Neon Prime Yamato
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  Concept art - "Yokai"
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  Concept art
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  Concept art
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  Concept art - "Schoolgirl"
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  Concept art - "Anisha"

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