PocketPick is a personal draft assistant for League of Legends. In champion select it turns your own ranked history, the live matchup and your team's needs into one expected win chance per champion, and the accuracy of that number has been verified against 15,037 real ranked matches the model had never seen.
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Every stats site can tell you a champion's global win rate. That number is about a million other players. PocketPick answers the question that actually matters at pick time: “Which of MY champions gives ME the best chance of winning THIS game?” Each recommendation is one plain number, built from parts you can see:
A real example from the app. Every term expands into its own working: sources, sample sizes, and the exact arithmetic. If PocketPick can't explain a recommendation, it doesn't make it.
We replayed 15,037 real ranked matches the model had never seen and compared the win chance PocketPick displayed with what actually happened. The displayed percentages tracked the real win rate across the whole range, with no inflation and no mystery score. The model itself is built from 30,000+ ranked solo-queue games (win rates, lane gold leads at 15 minutes, real pick rates per role) collected through Riot's official API, refreshed as patches land.
"About 58%" does not mean "right 58% of the time". The numbers run from about 41% to 59%. Most drafts sit within a few points of a coin flip, and the job is finding the few points of edge that are really there: your lane matchup moves the number about 6 points from best to worst, champion strength in the current meta about 5, team comp about 3.
Your per-champion, per-role solo-queue history blended with rank-appropriate meta data using an empirically calibrated weight: small samples lean on the meta, big samples lean on you. A visible blend bar shows exactly how much is “you” vs “meta” on every pick.
Real matchup win rates plus early gold leads at 15 minutes against the opponent you're likely to face (revealed or predicted), including the risk of being counter-picked if you commit early, at your rank, on the current patch.
Frontline, damage balance, engage, peel, all measured from real games and deliberately capped, because the data says team comp moves outcomes less than the internet thinks. PocketPick prices it honestly instead of shouting about it.
Two things deliberately absent or small. No synergy term: 600,000 same-team champion pairs showed no measurable synergy between strangers, so champion combos earn nothing here. AD/AP balance counts little until it has been cleanly tested; damage stacking measured slightly negative, and crowd control was the only team trait that leaned positive.
Start PocketPick while League is open and it reads your Riot ID, rank, ranked history and champion pool straight from your own League client. Read-only, on your machine, through the official client API. No account to create, no key to paste, nothing to type. It follows champion select live: bans, reveals, and the shrinking pick window.
I am a recently retired top laner, peak Emerald but mostly around Gold and Plat, on EUW. As a casual player I always struggled with the same champion select question: pick my main, pick the tank the team needs, or try to counter the lane? In May I started pulling ranked games from the official Riot API to answer that with data instead of gut feeling, and a summer of evenings later this is the result. A few things I believed for years did not survive contact with the numbers, comp mattering less than the lobby thinks most of all.
PocketPick is a one-person hobby project, not a company. The findings, the method and the data are published so anyone can check the claims, and if you find something wrong in them I would rather hear it than not: hello@pocketpick.gg.
PocketPick is in closed beta on Windows ahead of a public release. It's free for testers. If you play ranked between Silver and Platinum and want picks with receipts, we'd love your feedback. There's no public download yet: leave your email below and we'll send you the build. It's code signed rather than an anonymous exe, and it comes back clean on all 61 VirusTotal engines. Curious first? The interactive demo runs right in your browser, and the PocketPick Discord is open, with the first testers arriving.
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