YamatoCannon
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| Name: | Jakob Mebdi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country of Birth: |  Sweden
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| Birthday: | December 30, 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residency: |  Europe
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| Team: | Team Vitality | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role: | Coach | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Previous Role: | Top | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite champions: |    
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| Soloqueue IDs: | CJ YamatoKami, hc YamatoCannon, WACKAFL0CKAFLAME, DB YamatoCannon, yamatocannón, H2k YamatoCannon, YamatoPotato, WW YamatoCannon, mTL Tt YamCannon, ManOfOneWáy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jakob "YamatoCannon" Mebdi is a former League of Legends player and the current head coach for Team Vitality.
Biography
Jakob is from Västerås, Sweden. Before playing League of Legends he played high level World of Warcraft, Warcraft 3 and Starcraft 2. In League of Legends, he has played on various teams as AP, Top, and AD. He is known as a very versatile player. He was the AD carry for Team Solo Mebdi. However, the team disbanded after three of its members were banned by Riot for exceptionally toxic behavior.[1]
2015 Season
On January 10th, MeetYourMakers announced YamatoCannon as their new head coach for the 2015 EU LCS Spring Season.[2] After MYM was auto-relegated from the LCS, YamatoCannon joined the Russian team Glacial Phoenix as their head coach. He stated that while he eventually wanted to return to coaching an LCS team, he also didn't want to take any time off; he also stated he did not plan to ever return to competing as a player.[3]
On April 15th, Team ROCCAT announced YamatoCannon as their new Head Coach.[4]
Trivia
- Known for his
Olaf playstyle in season 2. - Played as Top, Mid and AD competitively.
- His name refers to the Yamato Cannon from the Starcraft franchise, a powerful nuclear shot fired from a terran Battlecruiser unit.
- Speaks fluent Arabic, English, Polish, and Swedish.
Tournament Results
As a Coach
- 2016
- 2015
| Date | Event | Result |
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| 2016-09-05 | 2016 Season Europe Regional Finals |  Splyce  3 : 2  Unicorns Of Love
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| 2016-08-28 | EU LCS 2016 Summer Playoffs |  Splyce 1 : 3  G2 Esports
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| 2016-08-01 | EU LCS 2016 Season Summer Split | Splyce 9-6-3  RR
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| Date | Event | Result |
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| 2015-08-30 | 2015 Season Europe Regional Finals |  Team ROCCAT  2 : 3  Origen
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| 2015-04-11 | SLTV StarSeries Spring Split 2015 Finals |  Glacial Phoenix  1 : 2  Moscow Five
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As a Player
- 2013
- 2012
| Date | Event | Result |
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| 2013-06-17 | DreamHack Summer 2013 |  Heimerdinger's Colossi  0 : 2  Copenhagen Wolves
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| 2013-06-05 | EUW Challenger Series #7 | Heimerdinger's Colossi 3 : 0  mousesports
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| 2013-06-01 | SCAN & NVIDIA EUW Invitational | Heimerdinger's Colossi 3 : 0  Eternity Gaming
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| 2013-05-30 | EUW Challenger Series #6 | Heimerdinger's Colossi 3 : 0  Dongsquad
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| 2013-05-23 | EUW Challenger Series #5 | Heimerdinger's Colossi 3 : 0  peculiar gaming
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| 2013-05-16 | EUW Challenger Series #4 | Heimerdinger's Colossi 3 : 2  Absolute Legends
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| Date | Event | Result |
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| 2012-05-06 | Insomnia45 LAN | 4Kings  1 : 2  Team WinFakt
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| 2012-03-17 | HeartoWin Cup | Western Wolves  2 : 1 mousesports
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Articles
- 2016
- March 13th, Lane Swap: From Pro to Coach by Phillip "Costy" Costigan on LoL Esports
Interviews
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2013
- 2012
- February 3rd, YamatoCannon: “Players’ careers can be so short because they don’t learn to become professionals.” with Darius Matuschak on The Shotcaller
- February 10th, Slingshot Questionnaire with YamatoCannon with Slingshot
- May 26th, YamatoCannon on NiP dropping FNC.A roster: If the LCS teams in EU don’t want you, you don’t belong with theScore Esports
- August 12th, YamatoCannon: “I always feel like this is some epic anime battle for myself whenever I play Unicorns of Love” with Darius Matuschak on The Shotcaller
- August 14th, YamatoCannon: "You have these games in which everything works perfectly" with Sport1
- August 16th, Vitality coach YamatoCannon: “I’ve worked with so many different players, played with so many different players, but no one loves the game as much as Nukeduck.” with Kelsey Moser for Slingshot Esports
- November 13th, YamatoCannon on SK Telecom T1's dynasty and Worlds legacy, the state of the EU LCS with The Nexus Podcast on theScore Esports
- January 4th, YamatoCannon: "I can sleep when I'm dead" with Fragbite
- February 17th, YamatoCannon on Splyce’s progress, the goals of a coach and why he’s angry at critics with theScore
- March 22nd, YamatoCannon on Splyce's development, relegation chances and his playoff predictions with theScore
- June 3rd, YamatoCannon: 'Mikyx has mechanics...that measure with the best supports in Europe' with theScore
- June 28th, YamatoCannon: Origen's strength is their decision making, but 'mechanically they are very behind' with theScore
- July 18th, YamatoCannon warns YoungBuck to stay away from his gym on Pokémon Go: ‘He’s gonna get smacked’ with theScore
- July 22nd, eSports - YamatoCannon "H2k has better picks and bans, as Fnatic" with Sport1
- August 4th, YamatoCannon introduces his brother, talks Splyce’s playoff hopes & criticizes NA's macro game with theScore
- August 16th, SPY YamatoCannon wins the EU LCS Coach of the Summer Split Award with LoL Esports
- August 23rd, YamatoCannon on reaching the finals, franchising and his 'long con' approach to coaching Splyce with theScore
- August 27th, "We are the little brother of G2" with Sport1
- August 30th, YamatoCannon: 'We could have done a lot better in terms of preparation and that falls on me' with theScore
- September 7th, YamatoCannon on his ideal group at Worlds: NA first seed, LMS second seed, then Korea second seed with theScore
- September 23rd, YamatoCannon on Splyce’s chances at League of Legends Worlds: 'We can definitely do some damage' with Yahoo!
- September 29th, Yamatocannon: "G2 is for me the best team in the West" with Fragbite
- October 1st, Splyce coach YamatoCannon: ‘We have the tools and we know what to do’ with The Rift Herald
- October 11th, YamatoCannon on Splyce’s worlds experience, G2’s struggles and his wardrobe with Slingshot Esports
- April 2nd, YamatoCannon parts ways with MYM: ”Would like to coach Team Liquid” with Aftonbladet E-sport
- April 16th, YamatoCannon: ”Everyone in the team feels that this is a new Roccat” with Aftonbladet E-sport
- April 17th, YamatoCannon speaks on his move to Roccat with The Daily Dot
- May 15th, ROCCAT maxrounds15 #1 with: YamatoCannon with ROCCAT
- August 18th, Face Check with guest YamatoCannon with Vulcun FS
- November 3rd, YamatoCannon Talks His Time on the Analyst Desk and His Experience at World Finals with Gamespot
- December 23rd, YamatoCannon at IEM—'Europe is still looking freaking strong.' with Daily Dot
- January 24th, in2LOL Interviews YamatoCannon with in2LOL
- May 27th, Interview with double EUW Challenger Series champion, Heimerdingers Collosi's YamatoCannon with Team Dignitas
- July 20th, YamatoCannon: Trash Talk Is Part Of Every Sport with cadred
- January 2nd, Meet the team: WW.LoL with Western Wolves
- March 30th, Cerolayn Interviews WW Yamato Cannon with Absolute Legends
- May 9th, League of Legends i45 pro group chat with beer (video) with Definitive eSports
- October 29th, Interview : YamatoCannon (French) with Team LDLC
Vlogs
- 2015
- April 2nd, YamatoCannon VLOG 1 - My Career and my future
- May 20th, YamatoCannon Online #1: Welcome Steve to the ROCCAT family!
- June 4th, YamatoCannon Online #2: Everyone is beatable!
- June 11th, YamatoCannon Online #3: Ekko overrated as f***?!
- June 17th, YamatoCannon Online #4: Old friends reunited
- June 26th, YamatoCannon Online #5: featuring VandeR
- July 9th, YamatoCannon Online #6: Sandwiches and Fun
Other Content
- 2018
- 2016
- January 25th, Vitality Crossover - Ep. 01: The path of Yamato with Team Vitality
- May 25th, Beyond The Lane - NA/EU Roster Changeswith Daily Dot
- June 7th, LCS Week 1 Recap with YamatoCannon - Beyond The Lanewith Daily Dot
- June 14th, Week 2 LCS Recap - Beyond The Lanewith Daily Dot
- June 21st, Week 3 LCS Recap & Renegades Ban With Leonyxwith Daily Dot
- July 20th, Beyond The Lane with YamatoCannon - Week 7 LCSwith Daily Dot
- August 9th, Beyond The Lane with YamatoCannon - Playoff Preview, Franchising, and Kledwith Daily Dot
- August 23rd, Beyond The Lane with YamatoCannon - The Marc Merrill Comment, LCS Finals, and Coach of the Splitwith Daily Dot
- September 3rd, Beyond The Lane - YamatoCannon on UOL Scrims, #LCSForever, Trash Talk, and Meta Discussionwith Daily Dot
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References
- ↑ eSports Competition Rulings: Suspensions of StunnedandSlayed, Veigodx and Rayt3ch legaueoflegends.com
- ↑ MeetYourMaker's Facebook Post facebook.com
- ↑ YamatoCannon VLOG 1 - My Career and my future youtube.com
- ↑ Team ROCCAT is loaded and so am I: Big Announcement (video) youtube.com
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