Yamato suggestion: Change grapple hook to "Marked for teleport slash"

[Zacker]

I see some players are frustrated by LOS not effecting grapple hook. I think the problem is the disconnect between what the ability looks like vs how it behaves. (see reddit video attached)

If the current behavior of this ability is working as intended, the skill concept could be reworked from "grapple hook" into some kind of "You've been marked for a teleport slash".

Suddenly, you've got the akuma red kanji symbol on your character with the sound effect . Yamato sheath's her sword and takes stance. Boom she teleports on to your character. Something like this could be a better visual for how the ability behaves

 

[maceosikes]

yo this'd be rad as hell

 

[bloodfrost27]

This sounds so awesome and works sooo much better
also make sure to put this in yamato feedback too so it has a higher chance of being seen

 

[Zacker]

This sounds so awesome and works sooo much better
also make sure to put this in yamato feedback too so it has a higher chance of being seen

I dont have access to the yamato feedback sub forum, can you put it on there?

 

[bloodfrost27]

I dont have access to the yamato feedback sub forum, can you put it on there?

No you do. You can post in there. It says private bcus only the devs can see ur messages

 

[blamagen]

So like a delayed Blink Strike?

 

[Zacker]

So like a delayed Blink Strike?

Yeah. Or whatever best serves an alignment between visual effects and the intended behavior of the ability. Maybe instant blink strike would be good too.

I've read some other user suggestions saying maybe after the mark, she has a window where she can choose when/if to do the strike which would add another layer of skill expression to bait out counter abilities. Or maybe when she hits the strike there's a 30ms blinding effect. Just ideas to make it interesting

 

[TokenNoob]

I love how we're advocating for Yamato's 2 ability to be an aram snowball. I'm not against it. I just think it's funny

 

[blamagen]

Yeah. Or whatever best serves an alignment between visual effects and the intended behavior of the ability. Maybe instant blink strike would be good too.

I've read some other user suggestions saying maybe after the mark, she has a window where she can choose when/if to do the strike which would add another layer of skill expression to bait out counter abilities. Or maybe when she hits the strike there's a 30ms blinding effect. Just ideas to make it interesting

I think giving her control when to teleport would be way too good, it's a teleport, not a dash.
My first thought was that her first ability would have infinite range vs marked targets and teleport her to them, it's limited by LoS, but it's forced synergy so I don't know.

Or maybe just make the grapple target walls and she damages enemy units along the way?