Yamato build guide

Natan's Yamato

by 󠀡󠀡agafatVersion 57Updated May 26, 2026Guide #340830

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Observed usage

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Published guide

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Author's notes

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

Item categories

1Lane
Author's category · 5 items · Roughly Left to Right
1. 1
  High-Velocity Rounds
  Makes hitting your shots a lot easier, builds into opening rounds
2. 2
  Spirit Strike
  Builds into Spirit Snatch, procs when you hit your 2 on someone
3. 3
  Mystic Shot
  Easy to hit with Right Clicks, pay attention to the cooldown and try to hit it on enemy heroes
4. 4
  Cold Front
  Extra burst and slow, can sell late game
5. 5
  Spirit Snatch
  Built from Spirit Strike
  Flying Slash (2) procs it now, pretty good
2optional
Author's category · 5 items
1. 1
  Restorative Shot
  Sell whenever you need a slot. Easy sustain with Right Clicks, pay attention to the cooldown and try to use it on enemy heroes when it's up.
2. 2
  Healing Rite
  Scales better with spirit now and good for box runs bc of sprint speed
3. 3
  Extra Regen
  Some nice extra sustain in lane, technically optional but nice to have, can sell whenever needed or upgrade to healboosters
3Core
Author's category · 7 items · Left to Right - Top Row First
1. 1
  Spirit Shredder
  4.8k gun investment, shreds spirit resist to increase your damage yippie
2. 2
  Opening Rounds
  Built from High-Velocity Rounds
  Buy whenever you need to sell resto shot for slot so you keep the 4.8k gun investment
3. 3
  Compress Cooldown
  More ults, can go torment pulse instead of cooldown here but imo having ult up very often kinda OP
4Veggiesoptional
Author's category · 12 items · GET 4.8K INVESTMENT AFTER LANE ITEMS
1. 1
  Healbane
  Healing Reduction and heal on kill, almost always good
2. 2
  Return Fire
  Vs gun heavy teams
3. 3
  Spirit Shielding
  Solid vs Spirit Burst, but Counterspell kinda does same but better while being more slot efficient
5Late gameoptional
Game stage · 12 items · READ ANNOTATIONS
1. 1
  Torment Pulse
  Just free extra damage in fights, low key can skip maybe
2. 2
  Tankbuster
  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.
3. 3
  Witchmail
  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

Categories appear in the author's order. Only the editor's default Early, Mid and Late sections are marked as game stages; the author's own categories keep their names. “Built from” links come from the game's item recipes.

Published ability order

Published ability order: unlocks and upgrades in the author's order, one row per ability in slot order
Power SlashPower Slash		Power Slash: Ability unlocked, step 2					Power Slash: 1 AP upgrade, step 7	Power Slash: 2 AP upgrade, step 8	Power Slash: 5 AP upgrade, step 9