In-App Support Chat

• Get help directly from within the app with our new support chat widget
• Chat with our support team without leaving RiftSurge
• Works for both logged-in users and guests
• Styled to match RiftSurge's dark theme with AI cyan accents
• Quick access to help whenever you need it

More Direct and Honest AI Feedback

• AI analysis now gives you straight, honest feedback instead of being overly nice
• See who actually carried and who underperformed in each game
• Get clear comparisons of how you performed against your lane opponent
• Analysis highlights both your strengths and weaknesses without sugar-coating
• Better understanding of what went wrong and what went right
• More actionable insights that help you improve faster

Enhanced Game Analysis with Individual Game Insights

• Each game now gets its own detailed AI analysis automatically
• Series analysis now uses insights from all individual games for better context
• More comprehensive analysis that considers each game's unique performance
• Better understanding of how your team performed across the entire series

Fixed Player Performance Ordering

• Players now always display in the correct order: Top, Jungle, Mid, ADC, Support
• Uses Riot's recommended position data for accurate role identification
• Works correctly even when multiple players have similar roles
• Blue team on left, red team on right for easier comparison

Improved Game Details Display

• Patch information now shows season and patch number for better context
• Quick link to view official patch notes directly from game details
• Fixed display issues with game completion dates
• Better visual design with hover effects and improved layout

Faster Dashboard & Surge Hub Loading

• Pages now load faster with components loading on-demand as you scroll
• See animated placeholders while content loads for better visual feedback
• Heavy analysis panels load only when you need them
• Faster initial page load for a more responsive experience

Smoother Animations & Interactions

• Improved drag-and-drop animations for champion and ban selection
• Smoother transitions when opening modals and expanding sections
• Better loading indicators that only appear when needed
• More polished interface interactions throughout the app

Player Tryout System

• Test players for 7 days without counting toward your roster limit
• Up to 7 active tryouts at once with automatic expiry handling
• AI-powered decision panel helps you evaluate tryout players
• See performance comparisons and synergy analysis for tryout players
• Add evaluation notes when confirming or rejecting tryouts
• Tryout insights included in your Surge Insights and podcasts
• Available for Challenger tier teams

Enhanced Surge Hub with Improvement Tracking

• See how players are improving over the past 4 weeks with visual charts
• Track improvement trends across all your team members
• Get alerts when players have playstyle mismatches with their champions
• See severity levels (Severe, Moderate, Minor) for each issue
• View detailed breakdowns showing expected vs actual performance
• Better understand which players need the most attention
• All insights organized in one easy-to-view hub
• Improvement trajectory data now included in all AI analysis and podcasts
• Get trend-based recommendations for improving declining areas

Duo Synergy Detection

• Detect when lane partners have mismatched aggression levels
• Get alerts for bot lane, mid-jungle, and top-jungle coordination issues
• See detailed comparisons showing how players work together
• Get recommendations for improving lane synergy
• Better understand why certain player combinations struggle
• All synergy insights included in your AI analysis

Improved Early Game Analysis

• Redesigned early game playstyle analysis with modern interface
• See your top champions with detailed metric breakdowns
• Get improvement tips specific to each champion you play
• Better visualization of your early game performance
• Track early kill participation and lane dominance
• All early game insights included in your player analysis
• Comprehensive early game data now included in all AI insights and podcasts
• See trend analysis showing if you're becoming more aggressive or passive
• Get role-specific improvement tips based on your early game performance

Player Role Transition Tracking

• Track when players change roles across different teams
• See how players adapt when switching roles
• Understand role change patterns and their impact on performance
• Get insights on players who have experience in multiple roles
• Better context for understanding player versatility and flexibility
• All role transitions included in your AI analysis and podcasts

Enhanced Game Behavior Analysis

• Detect vision control gaps to understand map awareness issues
• Identify aggression mismatches (too passive or too aggressive for your champion)
• Compare your performance against your lane opponent
• Analyze lane coordination between top-jungle and mid-jungle duos
• Track objective control patterns and decision-making
• Get role-specific performance insights
• All behavioral patterns included in your AI analysis for deeper understanding

Player Tenure Analysis

• Get AI-powered analysis when players leave your team
• Understand each player's contributions and impact during their time with the team
• See strengths, weaknesses, and role synergy insights
• Analysis automatically included in your podcasts and insights
• Rich narrative context for understanding team changes and player transitions
• Available for Challenger tier teams

Enhanced Role Performance Analysis

• Better analysis of how players perform in their specific roles
• Track utility contributions like crowd control time, healing, and shielding
• Understand lane dynamics and coordination between players
• See how well players fulfill their role responsibilities
• Better insights on bot lane synergy, mid-jungle coordination, and support roaming
• All role performance data included in your AI analysis and podcasts
• More comprehensive insights with expanded analysis capabilities

Contextual Tutorial System

• Get helpful tips and guidance right where you need them
• Tutorials adapt to your role (owner, manager, player, or analyst)
• See relevant tutorials on dashboard, roster, practice, playbook, and settings pages
• Tutorials use AI-themed styling to stand out from other content
• Easy to dismiss and won't clutter your workspace
• Learn features faster with role-specific guidance

Improved Scrim Management

• Separate buttons for adding manual scrims vs Flex/Clash games
• Easier to find the right option for your scrim type
• Better organization of scrim creation options
• Improved tutorial content explaining different scrim formats

Multi-Kill Stats & Achievements

• Track your double kills, triple kills, quadra kills, and pentakills
• See your killing sprees and unreal kill counts
• View objectives stolen to understand your impact on key moments
• All achievements displayed with total counts and averages per game
• Better understand your clutch performance and highlight moments

Support & Utility Metrics

• Track time spent crowd controlling enemies to see your impact
• See your longest survival time to understand positioning and awareness
• Support players can now see their utility contributions clearly
• Better metrics for understanding your role-specific performance
• All new stats included in your AI analysis and insights

Improved Stats Display

• Better visual layout for multi-kill stats with percentile labels
• Improved tier selector with icons and better styling
• More accurate baseline comparisons for all roles
• Cleaner organization of performance metrics
• Easier to understand your stats at a glance

Improved Trial & Subscription Banners

• Trial expiration and subscription expired banners now display prominently at the top of pages
• Banners use clear warning and danger styling to get your attention
• Direct links to billing page for easy subscription management
• Banners can be dismissed and won't reappear until needed
• Better visual design with glass panel styling and ray of light effects

Win Condition Analysis

• AI now analyzes how your team wins and loses games
• Identifies patterns in your victories and defeats
• Helps you understand what strategies work best for your team
• Provides insights on team strengths and weaknesses in different scenarios
• Automatically included in your Surge Insights for deeper understanding

Game Phase Performance Analysis

• Get detailed analysis of your performance in early, mid, and late game
• See where your team excels and where you struggle across different phases
• Identify phase-specific strengths and weaknesses
• Better understand your team's game flow and timing
• Helps you focus practice on the phases that need the most work

Improvement Trajectory Tracking

• Track how you and your teammates are improving over time
• See performance trends across the past 4 weeks
• Identify which players are on an upward trajectory
• Understand your team's overall improvement patterns
• Get insights on who's improving fastest and in which areas

Enhanced Champion Recommendations

• Champion recommendations now use expanded playstyle analysis
• More accurate suggestions based on your natural playstyle
• Playstyle categories expanded from 6 to 15 for better matching
• Includes analysis of skirmish, team fight, utility, control, pick, roaming, peel, dive, and siege styles
• Better champion pool suggestions that fit how you actually play

Improved Champion Meta Research

• Champion meta research now processes faster and more efficiently
• Better analysis of champion power spikes and crowd control opportunities
• More reliable data collection for champion insights
• Improved batch processing for faster updates

Compact Release Notifications

• Patch releases now show a more compact, less intrusive notification
• Easier to dismiss while still staying informed
• Full release notes still available when you want them
• Better experience for smaller updates

More Reliable Player Analysis

• Player analysis now automatically retries when temporary errors occur
• Better handling of rate limits to prevent unnecessary retries
• More reliable analysis when external services have temporary issues
• Fixed issues with player relationship analysis not completing correctly
• Improved overall reliability of player analysis processing

Early Game Lead Tracking

• Track your gold, XP, and CS leads at 10 and 15 minutes into each game
• See how you're performing in the critical early game phase
• Compare your leads against tier benchmarks to understand your performance
• Leads are automatically calculated from your games and displayed on stats pages
• Helps identify strengths and weaknesses in early game fundamentals

Player Relationship Insights

• See how well you work with specific teammates in duos and trios
• Get insights on your coordination and synergy with other players
• Understand which player combinations work best for your team
• Analysis includes team coordination patterns and relationship dynamics
• Automatically included in your player and team insights for deeper understanding

Champion Playstyle Matching

• Get recommendations on champions that fit your natural playstyle
• AI identifies when your playstyle doesn't match your champion's strengths
• Helps you choose champions that complement how you like to play
• Updated daily with the latest meta information
• Includes champion research for up-to-date recommendations

Better Player Analysis

• Player analysis now compares you to players at your tier level
• More accurate insights based on your actual skill level
• Includes comparisons with adjacent tiers for better context
• Detailed overview sections with comprehensive performance analysis
• Available for Challenger tier teams with enhanced AI insights

Custom Display Names

• Add custom display names to your team roster
• Display names appear in podcasts and throughout the app
• Better personalization for team members
• Easy to update from your team roster or profile settings

Smoother Team Joining

• Players are automatically linked when joining teams
• Smoother experience when accepting team invitations
• Better prompts for Riot account linking when needed
• Prevents duplicate players from being added to teams

Team-Focused Player Analysis with AI Insights

• Get detailed AI-powered analysis of your team's players
• View insights organized in easy-to-read tabs: Overview, Strengths, Weaknesses, Insights, and Recommendations
• Analysis focuses on team performance and coordination, not solo queue
• Automatically generated daily to keep insights fresh and up-to-date
• Concise, focused content that's easy to read without scrolling

Fixed Podcast Issues

• Podcasts now work more reliably and load correctly
• Fixed issues where podcasts wouldn't play or download
• Podcast links now stay valid longer for easier sharing
• Better handling when podcasts need to be regenerated

Fixed Stats & Game Data Issues

• Fixed errors on stats pages that prevented viewing your performance
• Fixed issues with game data not showing correctly
• Fixed problems with Flex and Clash games not being tracked properly
• Better error handling to prevent pages from crashing

Staff Management & Ownership Transfer

• Manage team staff members with role assignments
• Transfer team ownership to other team members
• Better control over team administration and permissions

Production Stability & Database Fixes

• Fixed PostgreSQL compatibility issues that caused errors on stats pages
• Resolved database column errors that prevented game processing
• Fixed queue configuration to ensure AI jobs process correctly
• Added automated repair system for unprocessed games and duplicate scrims
• Improved database schema with missing columns automatically added
• Better error handling for production database issues

Improved Flex/Clash Game Import

• Now allows games with 4 out of 5 roster players to be imported
• More flexible game tracking when substitutes or friends play
• Better user experience by not excluding games with minor roster variations

First-time game AI insights banner and Discord notifications

• Automatically receive AI insights and podcast generation when games are added to your team for the first time
• Beautiful AI-themed banner notification with gradient styling appears when insights are ready
• Get notified in Discord when your first team games are analyzed
• Prevents duplicate notifications by checking for existing insights

Notifications for Surge insights and analysis completion

• Get notified when your daily progress insights are ready
• Receive notifications when scrim analysis completes
• Get alerts when match analysis finishes
• Notifications for composition analysis completion
• Alerts when team composition analysis is done
• Notifications for team performance analysis completion
• All notifications prevent duplicates and include error handling

Improved notification bar and UI enhancements

• Notification bar now auto-dismisses more intelligently
• Better user experience with improved notification handling

Fixed mobile floating widgets positioning

• Floating widgets no longer block the mobile navbar
• Better positioning on mobile devices while maintaining desktop layout

Improved Production Stability

• Fixed production crash when fetching_stats column is missing
• Better error handling for database schema mismatches
• Pages now load gracefully even if migrations haven't been applied

Enhanced Team Collaboration

• Get notified in Discord when important team events happen
• Teams can share join links that automatically add players when they sign up
• Improved team settings UI with clearer navigation and better organization
• Test Discord notifications directly from the setup page

Improved Team Discord Connection

• Better Discord integration setup process
• Clearer connection status and verification
• Improved error handling and connection reliability

Week-Wide Analysis

• Analyzes all your games from the week, not just the most recent ones
• Identifies patterns across multiple games throughout the week
• More comprehensive insights based on your full week of performance
• Podcasts now include analysis of your entire week's gameplay

Flexible Time Periods

• Switch between 7-day, 14-day, and 30-day views instantly
• Available in Player Spotlight, Team Health Dashboard, and Performance Pulse
• Faster page loads with smoother transitions
• See your performance trends across different time periods

Dynamic Performance Benchmarks

• Combines research-based standards with real performance data from actual games
• Benchmarks evolve over time based on how players at your tier are actually performing
• Includes comprehensive metrics (KDA, CS, Gold, Vision, Damage per minute)
• More accurate and contextual insights that reflect the current state of competitive play

Enhanced Podcast Experience

Redesigned Performance Metrics

Enhanced Podcast Player with Visual Effects

• Beautiful gradient glow effects that respond to playback
• Animated sound visualizer that shows when audio is playing
• Glowing progress bars that highlight your listening position
• Smooth button interactions with hover effects
• Smoother transitions and animations throughout the player
• More reliable player mode switching

Persistent Podcast Player

• Player follows you as you navigate through the app
• Switch between compact mini player and full expanded view
• Your playback position is saved automatically
• See which podcast is playing from anywhere in the app

Enhanced Surge Insights

• Weekly meta trends insights now automatically generated
• All insight types included in your weekly podcasts
• Podcasts now feature your latest insights of each type
• Better integration between insights and podcast content

Improved AI Analysis with Benchmarks

• AI now compares your performance against relevant benchmarks
• Insights use both current season and recent 30-day trends
• Tier-specific comparisons for more accurate analysis
• More contextual and valuable insights based on your skill level

Persistent Podcast Player

Smarter AI Analysis

• AI now understands League of Legends strategy like support vision control and jungle pathing
• Better analysis of role synergies and team coordination
• More accurate insights on early game fundamentals like lane priority and wave management
• Improved recommendations based on matchups, itemization, and vision control

Smoother Animations

• All animations now use natural spring physics for a more responsive feel
• Smoother transitions throughout the app, from modals to page interactions
• Enhanced visual feedback with improved animation timing
• Better user experience with more polished interface interactions

Unified Team Management

• Everything team-related in one place: roster, staff, and invitations
• Manage players, Riot IDs, and send invitations all from one interface
• See player connection status at a glance (linked, pending, or roster only)
• Invite staff members with role selection in one simple flow
• Manage pending invitations with resend and cancel options
• Automatic linking when players accept invitations
• Smoother experience with better loading states and notifications

Enhanced Email Templates

• Redesigned emails with RiftSurge dark gaming aesthetic
• Beautiful AI gradient accents matching the app design
• All notification emails now styled with RiftSurge branding
• Receive beautifully formatted emails for scrims, podcasts, team reviews, and more
• Dark theme emails that look great on any device

Enhanced Notifications

• Podcast notifications now sent to your Discord channel
• Team-wide notifications for podcasts and insights instead of individual messages
• Get notified when your daily and weekly insights are ready
• Receive notifications for weekly focus and meta trends
• Stay updated on all AI-generated content automatically

Display Name Support

• Add a custom display name (callout name) to your profile
• Your display name appears in podcasts and throughout the app
• Fallback to your summoner name if no display name is set
• Redesigned profile page with modern UI and photo upload

What's New Feature

• New floating notification bar to highlight latest updates and features
• Browse release notes with beautiful carousel slides
• Support for both image showcases and bullet point highlights
• Automatically tracks which updates you've seen
• Access full changelog and release history anytime

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where meta trends were not generating in Surge Hub
• Fixed various other issues

Bug fixes

• Better continuity between days and weeks for Surge insights
• Fixed other minor bugs

AI-Generated Weekly Podcasts