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Yamato
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Natan's Yamato

Build #340830Latest v57May 26, 2026

New Patch Testing Fully annotated! Vitality items are all situational, buy at least 4.8k worth after the Lane items for investment spike

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Win rate
50.8%

169 wins / 164 losses

Matches
333

297 unique players tracked

Pick rate
4.0%

Popularity #5 for this hero

Win-rate rank
#17

Ranked within the popular resolved selected builds

Ability Leveling Order

Ability unlocks and upgrades by step.

16 steps
Ability leveling order by ability and step
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Crimson Slash
Power Slash
Flying Slash
Shadow Transformation

Build items

Guide items grouped by the build categories and labeled with item category, tier, and soul cost.

4 categories

Lane

Roughly Left to Right

5 items
High-Velocity Rounds

High-Velocity Rounds

Weapon T1800 souls

Makes hitting your shots a lot easier, builds into opening rounds

Spirit Strike

Spirit Strike

Spirit T1800 souls

Builds into Spirit Snatch, procs when you hit your 2 on someone

Mystic Shot

Mystic Shot

Weapon T21,600 souls

Easy to hit with Right Clicks, pay attention to the cooldown and try to hit it on enemy heroes

Cold FrontActive

Cold Front

Spirit T21,600 souls

Extra burst and slow, can sell late game

Spirit Snatch

Spirit Snatch

Spirit T33,200 souls

Flying Slash (2) procs it now, pretty good

Core

Left to Right - Top Row First

7 items
Spirit Shredder Bullets

Spirit Shredder Bullets

Weapon T21,600 souls

4.8k gun investment, shreds spirit resist to increase your damage yippie

Opening Rounds

Opening Rounds

Weapon T21,600 souls

Buy whenever you need to sell resto shot for slot so you keep the 4.8k gun investment

Compress Cooldown

Compress Cooldown

Spirit T21,600 soulsImbue

More ults, can go torment pulse instead of cooldown here but imo having ult up very often kinda OP

Superior Cooldown

Superior Cooldown

Spirit T33,200 souls

Shorter cooldowns yippie

Improved Spirit

Improved Spirit

Spirit T21,600 souls

More spirit, more dmg, more healing, builds into Boundless Spirit later on

Boundless Spirit

Boundless Spirit

Spirit T46,400 souls

More spirit, can delay for tank items, not high priority

Arctic BlastActive

Arctic Blast

Spirit T46,400 souls

Probably OP item

Veggies

Optional

GET 4.8K INVESTMENT AFTER LANE ITEMS

12 items
Healbane

Healbane

Vitality T21,600 souls

Healing Reduction and heal on kill, almost always good

Return FireActive

Return Fire

Vitality T21,600 souls

Vs gun heavy teams

Spirit Shielding

Spirit Shielding

Vitality T21,600 souls

Solid vs Spirit Burst, but Counterspell kinda does same but better while being more slot efficient

Weapon Shielding

Weapon Shielding

Vitality T21,600 souls
Reactive Barrier

Reactive Barrier

Vitality T21,600 souls

Scales with spirit so can be nice, good vs lanes/teams that proc it easily (haze bebop vindicta abrams etc etc)

Debuff Reducer

Debuff Reducer

Vitality T21,600 souls

Vs lots of debuffs

Healing Booster

Healing Booster

Vitality T21,600 souls

Gets us to 4.8k Vitality, the healing boost is kind of irrelevant right now, but once we get T3 Crimson Slash it's good

Dispel MagicActive

Dispel Magic

Vitality T33,200 souls

If you cant cast ult because of Silences, or just vs general debuffs like infernus mirage drifter seven etc

Counterspell

Counterspell

Vitality T33,200 souls

Parry that shit

Spirit Resilience

Spirit Resilience

Vitality T33,200 souls

Almost always good vs Spirit heavy teams

Warp StoneActive

Warp Stone

Vitality T33,200 souls

mobility option, gives bullet res too

Metal SkinActive

Metal Skin

Vitality T33,200 souls

Vs gun heavy teams to survive shorter engagements, for example a haze targeting you

Late Game

Optional

READ ANNOTATIONS

12 items
Torment Pulse

Torment Pulse

Spirit T33,200 souls

Just free extra damage in fights, low key can skip maybe

Tankbuster

Tankbuster

Spirit T33,200 souls

Procs on 3 now so really easy to constantly proc in fights. Make sure your Crimson Slash does over 165 damage when you pick this up.

Witchmail

Witchmail

Vitality T46,400 souls

If enemy team has lots of consistent high spirit damage abilities, for example Seven who constantly does 75+ dmg with his power surge, this item is mega OP you get your cds back instantly

Phantom StrikeActive

Phantom Strike

Vitality T46,400 souls

Vs gun heavy team, extra gap closer, disarm and good damage as well

Spellbreaker

Spellbreaker

Vitality T46,400 souls

Vs Spirit Burst teams / debuffs (pocket lash etc) Witchmail often better imo

Plated Armor

Plated Armor

Vitality T46,400 souls

Vs gun/on hits (mina haze mirage etc)

ColossusActive

Colossus

Vitality T46,400 souls

If you need to frontline against a mixed damage team

Diviner's Kevlar

Diviner's Kevlar

Vitality T46,400 souls

If you want a barrier after ult and some duration

RefresherActive

Refresher

Spirit T46,400 souls

2 ults, great if you know the next fight is gonna be the last fight/deciding fight of the game.

Ethereal ShiftActive

Ethereal Shift

Spirit T46,400 souls

26 second cd with transcendant cooldown, great for stalling in fights and avoiding burst

Mystic Reverb

Mystic Reverb

Spirit T46,400 soulsImbue

More slash damage

Transcendent Cooldown

Transcendent Cooldown

Spirit T46,400 souls

Reduces item cooldowns, mystic shot, torment pulse, counterspell etc. Can delay for tank items, not high priority