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by swordsmith 1768 days ago
Does this provide real time "coaching"/suggestions during the game for League? I remember there used to be this application called "bwcoach" for Starcraft Broodwar, that would yell at the player if he's not building enough workers, not spending enough resources, not scouting, etc.

The capabilities of your League app seem to be easily accessible via multiple other apps (porofessor, op.gg, League client itself), and during pick/ban, suggesting champions/runes to use based purely on community stats may actually be detrimental (the player may be much worse at a suggested counterpick, than if they just played their best champion).

I think if the coach client can provide suggestions such as the following, it would provide a lot of utility for minimal effort: 1) reminder to check mini-map 2) after a kill, suggest backing vs. pushing wave to tower vs. roaming 3) itemization suggestion, which has a more objectively optimal choice based on team comp/itemization than champion selection.

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As another commenter here has mentioned, in the case of LoL particularly, Riot games has banned similar apps and tools in the past. I can also see it causing "integrity of competition" issues with people, although you can certainly get live streamed coaching with professional coaching, that certainly isn't as scalable as simply running a coaching app alongside your client.
Blitz [0] gives an overlay with info like creep score in League of Legends, and character suggestions in Teamfight Tactics.

[0] https://blitz.gg/

Thanks for sharing your comments. We don't provide any tactics or actionable suggestions during the game for League.

As you mentioned, some of our features are already accessible via some other applications but we aim to provide more comprehensive suggestions.