Getting League of Legends matches stats from the Riot API

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It was a quiet summer night playing LoL with some friends. Suddenly I came up with an idea: “What if we play with all the champions of LoL and we cannot go to the next one until we won a game?”. Sounds cool but it’s not, believe me. With these innocent words we sentenced our lives to a decadence of early surrenders and humiliating defeats. After a deep silence, our developer souls raised the key question: “how can we automatize the track of this challenge?”. Well, that’s this post about: why playing with Riot’s API is even more fun than playing the game.

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