pickbot

Recentemente è stato creato da un giocatore di League of Legends un sito che ci aiuterà nella scelta dei champion in base ai ban e alla composizione del team avversario.

Infatti il sito vi chiederà prima di tutto di selezionare i ban di entrambi i team e poi, volta per volta, i champion scelti dal team avversario in modo tale da poter suggerire al meglio quali champion scegliere per poter giocare al meglio contro di essi.

Ovviamente è un sito appena nato, infatti esso è ancora in beta, però questo progetto è stato recensito positivamente da tantissimi giocatori di League of Legends.

Di seguito troverete il link e la presentazione del sito scritti direttamente dal creatore:

Hey guys! I’ve spent the past few days working on a tool to help with building a killer team comp. and I think I’ve got it to a place where I’m comfortable showing it off a little bit.

Pickbot.com

(Works best in Chrome)

EDIT: So much awesome feed back and killer suggestions from everyone! I’m working on new features already! Follow Pickbot (@pick_bot) on twitter to stay up-to-date when new features roll out! I’m glad you guys like the premise, now to expand!

@Pickbot

Premise

The idea for this tool came from the realization of some flaws in websites that give pick suggestions (ie. championselect.net). The problem with these tools is that they only offer very isolated suggestions. Sure, they do make mention of who those champions are good with, but you have to go through so many hoops and page jumps to get any real usable information, and even then not all the variables are accounted for.

With Pickbot I’m hoping to solve some of that by dynamically making suggestions based on what your team and the enemy team has picked and tallying those recommendations, allowing champions to be “super recommended”. Ex: If your teammate picks Nunu, Caitlyn and Vayne will be highlighted because they are good with Nunu. If the enemy team then picks Graves, Caitlyn will then get another suggestion vote and her highlight will be even more prominent because Caitlyn is also strong against Graves. Caitlyn now has 2 recommendations making her stand out more than those with only 1. This continues through the entire team selection process and as picks are made recommendations continue to get tallied champions glow more and more.

The goal was really to make suggestions very natural and unobtrusive. I don’t want to scream in your face that you should pick someone, I just want to nudge. And maybe after that champion becomes a better and better pick, my voice gets a little bit louder, but not annoyingly so.

Future goals

If there is any real interest in this kind of thing, I have some ideas for what I’d like to do to hopefully make this more useful.

  • Search: I already have search underway, but in the meantime, you can use the letter filters and lane filters (and combine them!)
  • Undo: An ‘undo’ button is also in the works!
  • UI improvements: The UI currently is very rough. I made this thing in my spare time in about 2 days so I’d like to invest some more time in revamping the UI to be more consistent with the client and/or the new League of Legends website
  • If there is serious interest, I’d like to make a mobile app: There are some pretty rough UX challenges with this (tons of interaction and elements crammed into a small screen), but I have some good ideas on how to (hopefully) solve this.

Suggestions

In the upper right-hand corner there is a ‘?’ button. If you click that you can directly send me a message with anything you want: Suggestions on how to make the tool better, Suggestions on champion match-ups, or even to tell me how much you love me ;). If you leave contact info there I promise to get back to you ASAP! Please feel free to leave any feedback here as well! Remember, this thing is still pretty early, but hopefully it can be of use to at least a few people!

Problems

If you have any problems at all with the website please tell me here. I will try to get them resolved asap. Be patient, it may be a tad slow to load when you first visit because 115 or so champion pictures is a lot to download :P

-Rio

Pickbot.com