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Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

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Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

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Post by Olcy07 »

_pq8w wrote: post #7

Sounds like a really good idea, if the implementation is good enough. I don't play any of those games, but I might try Valorant out just to try out your software.

Thanks for your support! It is easy to try the Valorant Voice Assistant.Please let us know if you have any trouble / feedback after you try it. Appreciated.

Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

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Post by jcun4128 »

rich_sasha wrote: post #3

Very clever. Not a gamer anymore so won’t be a client, but it’s a great idea. As I aged/matured/whatnot I find I have more money and less time. It’s great to have a service where I can close a skills gap time-efficiently for money.

> I have more money and less time

For me it's loss of interest, back log of bought games/gaming pc but can't get into the game anymore oh well.

Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

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Post by swordsmith »

Does this provide real time "coaching"/suggestions during the game for League? I remember there used to be this application called "bwcoach" for Starcraft Broodwar, that would yell at the player if he's not building enough workers, not spending enough resources, not scouting, etc.

The capabilities of your League app seem to be easily accessible via multiple other apps (porofessor, op.gg, League client itself), and during pick/ban, suggesting champions/runes to use based purely on community stats may actually be detrimental (the player may be much worse at a suggested counterpick, than if they just played their best champion).

I think if the coach client can provide suggestions such as the following, it would provide a lot of utility for minimal effort: 1) reminder to check mini-map 2) after a kill, suggest backing vs. pushing wave to tower vs. roaming 3) itemization suggestion, which has a more objectively optimal choice based on team comp/itemization than champion selection.

Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

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Post by SuboptimalEng »

As far as I know there are three types of player versus player (PVP) games: slow paced strategy games (Pokemon), fast paced strategy (Starcraft, League of Legends), action games (Call of Duty, Halo, Fortnite). For the first type of game, having a tool to teach the best strategies makes sense. For the latter two, not so much.

From personal experience, fast paced strategy and action games just require a ton of practice. I used to read up on the best COD weapons and the best League setup but that never really put me in a place of contention against top players. Regardless of how many videos I watched of the top gamers, I just wasn't good.

Question: I'm wondering what special info your app can provide players that will actually help them get better than just playing the game more. E.g. Knowing a person will "gank" more based on a tag doesn't mean the user will know how to respond to that.

Anywho, good luck on the launch! It's a big feat to even release a product - never made it that far myself haha.

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