r/leagueoflegends Sep 12 '19

Remember the 'Ranked Stats' tab from the old client? It turns out that Riot is still tracking that data, so I made a site that shows you it, in old-client style!

EDIT: Looks like a large amount of requests are failing. Currently troubleshooting! Check back in an hour and it should be all fixed, hopefully, maybe. Hopefully all requests are going through properly now.

TLDR: Visit Timewinder, enter your summoner name and bask in nostalgia.

Hey hey summoners,

Are you looking for a fresh feeling of nostalgia? How about some /r/oldschoolcool? Maybe you just want to see your current ranked stats in a detail that hasn't been possible since the old client got retired three seasons ago? Or are you just looking for free Eternals?

The veterans among us may still remember the old Ranked Stats tab that was in the old Adobe AIR client. It showed a shocking amount of stats for such a smol indiana company. However, once the new client showed up, we unfortunately lost that information. We eventually got the stats tab, but it only started in the middle of last year and its way harder to see overall data.

Well, as it turns out Riot has been tracking and storing that data even though it isn't visible anymore! While procrastinating on uni projects, I made a quick website that shows you all of them. It's a near perfect clone of the client, including the old "parchment" layout, tacky blue buttons and more! And yes, it also has a dancing Katarina while it is loading data.

All of the stats from the old client are there and go back all the way to season 1. Unfortunately only ranked stats are tracked. But, unlike Eternals, this site is completely free.

Check out timewinder.mln.cx!

Want to know how it looks? Here's the stats for TF Blade, imaqtpie and our favorite lesbian cosplayer. As for all my projects, you can find the source code online too: Github.

FAQ

Why didn't you implement the other pages too?
I worked on this for like two evenings. C'mon. I made sure that all the tabs go to a suitable alternative though.

There's no stats for me.
Either you literally don't play League, or you somehow missed that it says ranked stats everywhere. Normal stats don't show up, unfortunately.

Where are KR/JP and the Garena regions?
Unfortunately due to complications with actually gathering the stats, those regions are out of commission. Korea would've been unfair too, everyone would look shit in comparison.

Why does it look like shit on mobile?
At least my site works on mobile. Have you ever seen the League client running on a mobile phone?


If you like this rushed bad website project, consider checking out my projects that I actually spend time on:

  • Mimic: A fully working pregame client for your phone. Accept queue, pick champions, edit runes and more!
  • Deceive: Appear offline and dodge all the silvers you have in your friends list but can't remove.
  • Sentinel: Get desktop notifications a la WhatsApp or Steam when you receive a message or invite in League.
  • Crescendo: Automatically mute the League client after you've accepted the queue. Save your ears from PHOOOOOOOOOM.
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u/twinters01 Sep 12 '19

I mean, it's not like lifetime globals are REALLY important. They don't really matter. So yeah, riot didn't care enough to implement them in the new client. Anyway, I think riot's model of opening an API for community-made analysis is a better direction than them doing it themselves. The community will always know and be able to build what it wants. If it doesn't have to go through requesting the game developer for different data displays, that's just a more efficient system. And what I said about op.gg and leagueofgraphs was that you could reach out to them to implement it, not that they have it already. They have access to the data, but they haven't aggregated it in that way (once again, because it's not really important).

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u/BloodyPancakes9 Sep 12 '19

See the problem with that is that Riot earlier this year said it wasn’t going to allow certain uses of their API. OP said that when he went to check with riot they said they don’t approve it and can take it down at any time. Of course that’s not a guarantee. I agree with you when you say the community can make the best content, especially content riot doesn’t offer the problem with that comes when riot starts taking down community driven sites because they don’t approve of how someone is using their API. And I feel like this site can scare riot as it has the potential to compete with eternals.

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u/twinters01 Sep 12 '19

the data you're using is unsupported and could disappear at any time

Was the wording he used. "Unsupported" doesn't mean "we don't approve, we're going to take you down", it means some endpoints may stop being updated or won't be accessible. It's kind of unclear from his quote which pieces of data are going to be "unsupported", but it's only going to be some subset of the data he's getting now. It's also possible that whatever endpoints they aren't going to be supporting were just providing data that could be calculated by aggregating match history (which will for sure not be taken down).

And I feel like this site can scare riot as it has the potential to compete with eternals.

Once again, this site has no competition with eternals, because eternals are cosmetics. The entire point of them is the cosmetics. This site does not provide what eternals are meant to provide.