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Compare Yamato (Assassin) and Lady Geist (Mystic) in Deadlock — stats, weapon, abilities, and playstyle side by side.
Yamato is an Assassin hero with 730 base health and 63.216 weapon DPS. Lady Geist is a Mystic hero with 880 base health and 43.809weapon DPS. In a direct comparison, Lady Geist has the larger health pool, while Yamato brings more raw weapon damage per second.
Raw stats only tell part of the story — abilities, item builds, and player skill decide most matchups. Compare the ability lists below, then check each hero's full guide for builds and counters.
Based on real ranked matches from deadlock-api.com, Lady Geist currently has the higher win rate this week — 47.6% for Yamato vs 50.9% for Lady Geist. Lady Geist also sits in tier A in the live meta.
Live data from 925,094+ ranked matches · Source: deadlock-api.com · updated weekly
| Stat | Yamato | Lady Geist |
|---|---|---|
| Max Health | 730 | 880 |
| Move Speed | 8.2 | 6.3 |
| Stamina | 3 | 3 |
| Health Regen | 1 | 1 |
| Light Melee | 55 | 50 |
| Heavy Melee | 128 | 116 |
| Stat | Yamato | Lady Geist |
|---|---|---|
| DPS | 63.2 | 43.8 |
| Sustained DPS | 42.6 | 27.2 |
| Bullet Damage | 5.31 | 20.7 |
| Fire Rate (RPS) | 2.38 | 2.12 |
| Clip Size | 12 | 9 |
| Reload (s) | 2.4 | 2.6 |
| Bullet Speed | 254 | 828 |
| Can Crit | Yes | Yes |
Yamato is a close-range assassin who wins fights up close, chaining precise sword strikes instead of poking from range. She uses Flying Slash to grapple toward an enemy and get into striking distance, then layers Power Slash and Crimson Slash to damage, slow, and disable her target while healing herself off hero hits. Once she's fully engaged she can pop Shadow Transformation to become briefly invincible, refresh her abilities, and fight at 60% faster ability speed. She has no ranged poke and relies on closing the gap, so staying stuck to her target is the whole game. Build her as a melee/spirit bruiser who dives the backline and snowballs off hero kills.
Strong vs: Yamato excels against squishy, immobile backline heroes she can reach with Flying Slash. Immobile carries and supports who can't kite the grapple are easy dives once she lands on top of them. Heroes that rely on sustained fights rather than burst struggle against her self-healing Crimson Slash and resist-stacked ultimate. Any target caught alone and out of position dies fast to a fully charged combo. She especially punishes heroes who commit to a fight without a real escape.
Weak vs: She struggles against long-range heroes who kite her and punish a mistimed grapple from outside her melee threat range. Dispel and invincibility effects break the Flying Slash connection, and Slowing Hex disables the grapple entirely. The charge-up on Power Slash roots her in place, so it's easy to interrupt, dodge, or trade around. Heavy crowd control and burst that lands before her ultimate goes up can kill her during the window where she has no safe dive. She also lacks reliable ranged damage, so she can't contest poke from distance.
Lady Geist is a self-damage spirit bruiser who spends her own health to cast Essence Bomb and Malice, then refills it by draining enemies with Life Drain. She wants to hold medium range, chip opponents with her heavy-hitting Johann's Gift, and treat her health bar as fuel rather than a shield. Her whole kit is a loop: pay health, deal damage, drain it back, and hold Soul Exchange for the moment a kill is on the line. She lives in drawn-out skirmishes where sustain matters more than burst, and she wilts when caught without a target to drain. Play her patiently, keep a drainable enemy or unit nearby, and never overcommit when your health is the thing you're spending.
Strong vs: Lady Geist is comfortable into low-health backliners she can out-sustain, since Life Drain turns their damage into her healing while Malice stacks wear them down. She does well in extended, grindy fights where sustaining off a durable target matters more than burst. Soul Exchange is a nightmare for an enemy caught at high health, because it can slam them down and top her up in a single button. She also punishes anything that wants a long duel, since the longer you trade, the more Malice stacks and drain healing she accumulates. Give her a target to feed on and she simply does not run out of health.
Weak vs: Her low base health pool means concentrated burst can kill her before she ever gets a drain off, so heroes who can delete her in a short window are a real threat. Anti-heal and healing reduction items blunt Life Drain's payoff, and dispel or debuff-resist tools strip her Malice stacks. Silence and hard crowd control stop her from reaching Soul Exchange, and a well-timed Counterspell can catch the swap. Long-range poke that keeps her from closing to drain range is also a problem, since her kit wants a target within reach. Without a drainable target nearby, she has no way to refill and folds fast.
Lady Geist has the larger base health pool at 880, compared to 730 for Yamato.
Yamato has the higher weapon DPS at 63.216, versus 43.809 for Lady Geist.
Neither hero is strictly better — they fit different roles. Yamato is an Assassin and Lady Geist is a Mystic, so the right pick depends on your team composition, the enemy draft, and which playstyle you are comfortable with. Check the win rates on our tier list for the current patch.