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Riot Games API Challenge 2016

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It’s that time of the year; the API Challenge is upon us! If you didn’t catch the last API Challenge, it was focused on three categories: Black Market Brawlers, Ability Power Item Changes, and Item Sets. We’re back again with a new prompt and more prizes. The community developers have not disappointed and we’re excited to see what they come up with next.

If you have free time over the next couple weeks, we encourage you to stop by the Developer Forums and check out the Riot Games API Challenge 2016!

83 Comments

Vhan876526 votes

This and those links explain nothing. I am beyond confused as to what this is, how one participates, and what they actually are supposed to do even.

IcyPeppers16 votes

It's a challenge for software developers, web developers, and scripting/coders for the most part. Riot opens up limited access to realtime data as part of a competition. Here's a hard link to the post in the Developer Forums: https://developer.riotgames.com/discussion/announcements/show/eoq3tZd1

You had to filter posts as Announcements to find it.

DOMUNIS4 votes

item 3902

VIX71418 votes

WE NEED A KILLCAM KAPPA item 3136 [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

Draaaaaavéééééén6 votes

Ad zhonyas? it would help adc's lot Draven [slayer-pantheon-thumbs]

starsteez2 votes

more qss builds would help aswell

Mech hi1 votes

define qss

I Have No Paneer2 votes

Quick Silver Sashitem 3140

BÎll2 votes

Steraks has been defined as the AD Zhonyas imo

Jon11743 votes

Wheres the modding API?

Wifi the Router2 votes

Such a good Yogscast song.

My Opinion3 votes

If they have Thornmail, which is made out of a cloth armor and chain vest, which reflects a portion of attacks on your person as magic damage, consider--

Mirror Mail, item 1033 + item 1057 , or possibly a item 1057 + item 1028 which would reflect a portion of of magic abilities on your person as physical damage, this way for those bursty mages and mage assassins, your squishy marksman or counter mage would have something against them.

Like Thornmail, make the item expensive and don't let the return damage be too ridiculous, considering that it is a lot of MR with those two items, but it is something I'd like to see considered.

tomcarr233 votes

Please bring back sword of the occult. Or something along the lines of a mejai's for ad champions.

IntrebuloN3 votes

A lot of players seem to think the API challenge is about game changes. Some are asking what exactly this is about.

I'm just going to put this here and hope it sticks to the top:

The Riot API is a programming interface that allows third parties to request statistical League of Legends gameplay data from Riot, which said third party can then manipulate and display in an organized manner via an application; application overlay; application extension; web browser; web browser extension; etc.

The third parties then publish their work as tools for players, such as any of the multitude of sites that publish Win Rate statistics or sites that publish recent builds of pros (Probuilds.net), or browser extensions like LeagueSets for Chrome or build calculators like builder.gg

Hope this clarifies and maybe cuts down on some of the "we need X item in the game" comments.

DARKWOLF36082 votes

nice RIOT*[slayer-pantheon-popcorn]*

BeastModeGames132 votes

Give us a ap item that gives extra CDR based on your spell vamp or magic pen

it would be like an ap Essence reaver

Rhurin6 votes

Dude... they are removing spell vamp from the game.

Tormentor of God1 votes

i thought hextech gunblade will still have it?

Rhurin1 votes

No, sadly not.

DorkunedAuras1 votes

Gunblade is keeping its Omnivamp

DorkunedAuras4 votes

it gives you CDR based on your CDR... wait

adjoth1 votes

Perfect, I've already figured out how you can do it. First you make an item that has CDR, then it GIVES you that amount of CDR. [slayer-pantheon-rainbows]

DorkunedAuras1 votes

and then gives you bonus CDR based on that CDR, which then gives you bonus CDR based on the bonus CDR which is based on the initial CDR.

This goes on for about 40 iterations before the game crashes. So if you ever are having a losing game, buy this item to stalemate.

Varda1 votes

AKA they need an item called Bugsplat

adjoth1 votes

They do, it's powering there servers.

awesomer1111 votes

well, actually, item 3089 is pretty much that, except for AP. then again tho, CDR and AP are nothing alike...

xWaters2 votes

AP Teemo anyone?

Mech hi1 votes

item 3285 item 3089 item 3151 item 3116 item 3009 item 3115

The Doomstick1 votes

item 3151 my reaction..

Mech hi1 votes

everyone reacts like that

SufyKappaSufy1 votes

I re place item 3009 with item 3100 and item 3116 with item 3124 . This build helps me alot but i dont get it, why boots????

BÎll2 votes

Because nearly every Core build has some sort of boots for the extra ability and kiting potential. it seems minuscule but it does help

Mech hi1 votes

cause teemo gotta go fast

Nigave1 votes

I usually go item 3115 item 3151 item 3285 item 3157 item 3089 item 3124 for teemo

Nigave1 votes

it works for me almsot every time

Ekoth2 votes

I would like to see a MR item building out of giants belt accompany this mage update, but I don't see that happening summoner 3

BootlegNinja2 votes

Rito please add a kill cam mechanism so that people can watch they're deaths and see they're mistakes and improve upon them.

BÎll1 votes

They have already talked about making a replay a long time ago. They said they would do it but havent really touched on the subject since then. So i doubt we will actually see it.

IntrebuloN1 votes

There's a utility for Overwolf that does this. You can literally hit a keyboard shortcut and watch a replay while in-game. Think it's called Replay HUD. YMMV

You can also setup ShadowPlay or the AMD equivalent to record the last X seconds or minutes to disk on a keypress. Set something like this to 30 seconds and you can press a button after every team fight or whatever and have a library of clips to check through when you're done.

whadayamean2 votes

[slayer-pantheon-thumbs] RITO sucks

Rmpl Steel Skn2 votes

Wouldn't mind another item to reduce damage done from crits

GRK Feeder2 votes

what is the so called API ChallengeHeimerdinger

Dogefood2 votes

I know this is an API challenge, but I feel like there should be a item that's like zhonya's item 3157 but for ad assassins. We need an item that can give you armor and ad, possibly even ar penetration. I think a item that gives armor and ad would work very well on champ like zed or yasuo. the item could be built with: item 1031 + item 3133 + item 1036

or even: item 1031 + item 3134 + item 1036 with ar pen

Edgar Allan Pwn2 votes

If they simply add the basic tools to organize Rune and Mastery Pages (via drag and drop and copy/paste), we will see much needed feature that we have requested for years. If you don't believe me, search for "organizing runes masteries" on the boards; there are literally dozens and dozens of requests spanning the last 4 years with not so much as a peep from Riot...

MashiroMomo2 votes

need more MR. Especially with the mage update. Buff solari to give more MR to the team, add a MR thornmail or MR Randuins that would be cool. Basically give me a combination of Warmogs and Banshees, thank you.

DahPurplePanda1 votes

Riot we don't give a flying crap about this. Show us that you care about the millions that play this game and bring back urf. Only 2 days... Come on. Should at least be a week.

Xeichu2 votes

Urf is eventually coming back again this year and it's 3 days (Friday-Sunday). I get what you're saying but Urf does start to get boring or annoying when you have to deal with champions that are nearly impossible to kill like Wukong making it less enjoyable. I find 3 days was enough for Urf and ready for Hexakill and One-For-All in the future :) But that is my opinion

Drago Zankaru2 votes

Meh I as someone that works almost every weekend, normally 9 or more hours a day would really like the rotation queue to be a week long, and just have them change what mode it is on fridays

LengMolikaPlants1 votes

Lux item 1018

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