Counterplay

Counterplay is a Windows application for League of Legends that helps you choose a champion during champion select. It reads the draft from the game client as it happens and shows which picks work best against the enemy team and alongside your own, together with the build, runes, summoner spells and skill order for the pick you settle on.

Website: counterplays.com

Counterplay isn't endorsed by Riot Games and doesn't reflect the views or opinions of Riot Games or anyone officially involved in producing or managing Riot Games properties. League of Legends and Riot Games are trademarks or registered trademarks of Riot Games, Inc. League of Legends © Riot Games, Inc.

What it does

• Recognises champion select automatically while the client is running
• Reads your assigned role, your team's picks and the enemy picks as they happen
• Ranks the champions available to you for the role you are playing, weighing the matchup against your lane opponent most heavily, then the rest of the enemy team, then how well the pick fits your own team
• Gives a short reason for every recommendation, so the advice can be judged rather than taken on faith
• Shows the build, runes, summoner spells and skill order for the champion you are about to lock in, and can send the rune page to the client in one click
• Tracks your rank over a session and shows what the next game is worth
• Adapts to your champion pool, so the advice stays inside what you actually play
• Speaks fifteen languages

What it deliberately does not do

These limits come from Riot's rules for third-party applications, and the application is built around them rather than against them.

• Advice appears only during champion select. Once the game starts, the overlay stops advising — there is no in-game assistance of any kind.
• Nothing is read from the game's memory or process. The application talks only to the official client API on your own machine.
• In Ranked Solo/Duo, enemy summoner names are never shown — opponents appear as Enemy 1, Enemy 2 and so on.
• No account credentials are asked for, stored or transmitted. The application cannot log in, queue, play or act on your behalf.

Requirements

• Windows 10 or 11
• League of Legends installed, with the client running

Install

Download the latest installer from the Releases page and run it. Updates are delivered automatically; statistics refresh on their own as each patch settles.

Statistics

Recommendations are computed from ranked matches collected through Riot's public match API and aggregated by champion, role, rank and patch. Individual matches are not retained — only the aggregate counts the recommendations are built from. Numbers are recalculated as a patch matures, and the application holds back a new patch until there is enough of it to say anything meaningful.

Support

Questions, bug reports and suggestions: counterplays.com.

License

Proprietary. Copyright © 2026 Counterplay. All rights reserved. See LICENSE — the source is published for transparency, not for reuse: copying, modification, redistribution and derivative works are not permitted.