Hey Riot.. Can I make an App?

Better Jungler·Dec 2, 2015·3 votes·918 views

I had a pretty decent idea this morning, i think. I would like to create an App thatll help people with last hitting minions.

heres the gist.

Pick your champ, the app will take into attack speed and minion health, As well as items you have equipped.

I would like to use in game footage, (which i would attain myself)

There would be a tutorial mode minions would flash yellow at the opprotune time

a Speed mode * quickened version of the game, *

and a normal mode *actual speed of in game up to 45 minutes.

Ill send an email as well in case I dont get red text on here.

If you're reading this thumb up if you like the idea, if you dont like the idea please tell me why in the comments below:)

10 Comments

SwizzleDec 2, 20151 votes

This is a decent idea.

It would take a ton of work to complete it though

Better JunglerDec 2, 20151 votes

I got a ton of time, and shouldnt take more than.. a few months or so of part time dedication.

ModThe DjinnDec 2, 20151 votes

You can make this all, but Riot doesn't allow you to interface with the game itself, so you'd have to build the entire game structure from scratch, and that might have legal issues...and also be incredible hard to get right, since minion AI and patching AI play a large part in last-hitting.

Better JunglerDec 2, 20151 votes

hm... i emailed them, we will see what they say.

TheDabberBoyDec 2, 20151 votes

Theres already one out there, but tbh its pretty shitty imo

Better JunglerDec 2, 20152 votes

yeah i saw it this morning, and downloaded it.. its really bad.

I can make a similar one, but much much much better.

FarRockBFDec 2, 20151 votes

There were two out there, but there was a huge rift on reddit last year and one got shut down. They aren't bad.

Better JunglerDec 2, 20151 votes

A huge rift on reddit? care to explain not a reddit user

DrCyanideDec 2, 20151 votes

Here's the API Riot gives access to: https://developer.riotgames.com/api/methods As you can see for yourself, nothing to do with what's happening in the game as it's happening. Not even a way to process the spectator data as it comes.

What you'd be doing would be hacking the client. From a thread someone else made about scripts and how they work, you'd have to re-hack it every time a patch came out. Patches come out every 2-weeks, with hotfixes that could also break your program being released in-between those times.

Your speed up mode would require your program to act as the League of Legends server, so you'd have to rebuild that from scraped network traffic and patch notes.

TL;DR: No, you won't get Riot's blessing to make this. They won't punish you or your users should you succeed, so long as it's limited to some type of custom game (which, once again, you'll have to figure out how to set up), but they won't support you in it.

Better JunglerDec 2, 20151 votes

hm....

itd be a bit more work than i thought., the patches wouldnt be too bad, I could just change some numbers for each champ/minions.

the speed up mode would just be a normal version at like x2 speed. I dont think id need to hack the client,

im thinking instead of building from the ground up, i could use video. (Record custom game modes with each champion) then through the magic of video editing, mixed with some basic programming for a user interface, i think itd be possible. thanks for the API.