22CHAMPS
Free · play online in your browser, no download
Draft 22 League of Legends champions onto a football team, build chemistry between neighbours and play out a 17-game season. The developer says Claude Code wrote almost all of the code.
Official site 22champs.com, verified Nov 3, 2026. Linked from the developer's own Reddit post on r/aigamedev.
Rights holder / original work: League of Legends (Riot Games)
The game uses League of Legends champions, regions, lore pairs, item names and item data (pulled from Riot's Data Dragon) and Riot's own champion ratings. Its footer says it was created under Riot Games' “Legal Jibber Jabber” policy using assets owned by Riot Games, and that Riot Games does not endorse or sponsor the project; the developer calls it a fan project. No source shows any other licence. (22champs.com)
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Runs in a desktop browser. No download.
Browser (no download) · Official link verified Nov 3, 2026.
About 22CHAMPS
22CHAMPS is a free browser fan game that mixes a League of Legends champion draft with fantasy football. You draft champions onto all 22 starting spots on offense and defense, then play out a 17-game season. Every pick rolls a random region and role, and you choose from the champions who match. Each card has six stats (Power, Toughness, Speed, Size, Hands and Range), derived from Riot's own ratings for each champion and refined by base stats, body size and kit traits, and each football position weighs two to five of them, so every champion has a rating at every spot. Items converted from League's real item data add points to a card, each item with the same budget. Neighbouring players build chemistry when they share a role or a region, and 39 lore pairs from League's story boost each other. There are three modes: a Daily Challenge with the same rolls for everyone and one attempt, a Solo Draft that chases a perfect 17–0 season, and a live snake Draft with Friends against each other and CPU teams. The developer, posting as u/SmittyMcDaniels, says Claude Code in VS Code wrote almost all of the code while the developer made the design and balance decisions, in about 160 commits over 12 days. It was inspired by All22Pokemon, a Pokémon and football draft by ColeThereum. Free in the browser with no ads and no account; it is a fan project, not endorsed by Riot Games.
How it was built
Partially verifiedIn a post on r/aigamedev (24 Oct 2026, UTC), titled “I built a League of Legends x Fantasy Football Draft style browser game with Claude Code (Opus 5.5)”, the developer lists “Claude Code in VS Code wrote almost all of the code” and describes the workflow as “I make the calls, Claude writes the code. I describe what I want and why, review the result, and push back. Most of my input was design and balance decisions, not code.” Claude ran Playwright against the local build and screenshotted the page at sizes from 1250×910 to 2560×1440 for layout feedback; decisions were kept in a memory file so new sessions would not undo them; about 230 Vitest tests, including snapshot tests of simulated games, guarded the simulation; and the developer had Claude simulate thousands of drafts to audit the balance. The developer says this was the first time they mainly used voice-to-text for prompting and planning, after developing games with AI for about two to three years.
Next.js 16 on Vercel, where every push to main deploys; Supabase runs the live Draft with Friends rooms and PostHog the cookieless analytics. The six card stats start from Riot's 1–3 champion ratings and are refined by base stats, body size and kit traits, then ranked against the whole roster; a script pulls League's items with their shop stats from Riot's Data Dragon and converts each League stat into a 22CHAMPS stat, with a 15-point budget per item (20 for Arena's Prismatic items) and boots and three range items set by hand. Each day's Daily Challenge rolls come from a random number generator seeded with the day number, so the server stores nothing, and each day's CPU team is redrawn if it falls outside a 25–75% win rate against simulated drafts. CPU teams in Draft with Friends draft by fixed rules at three difficulty levels; no AI service runs in the game. The trailer was recorded with seeded Playwright scripts and cut with Remotion.
- Engine / framework
- Next.js
- Languages
- TypeScript
- Team size
- Not disclosed
- Initial build time
- About 12 days (about 160 commits)Developer ReportedReddit (u/SmittyMcDaniels)
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- Not disclosed
“I make the calls, Claude writes the code.”- I built a League of Legends x Fantasy Football Draft style browser game with Claude Code (Opus 5.5) (r/aigamedev)
- 22CHAMPS patch notes
Verification notes: AI use, tools, workflow and game systems from the developer's post by u/SmittyMcDaniels on r/aigamedev (24 Oct 2026, 16:01 UTC), read from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 8 Nov 2026; the post links 22champs.com. Modes, the Riot notice and the Daily Challenge from the game's home page, and updates from the patch notes (1.2.0 on 26 Oct to 1.5.0 on 1 Nov 2026), re-read on 8 Nov 2026. The release date is the day before the post (“launched yesterday”), and matches the Daily Challenge numbering (Daily #5 on 27 Oct, Daily #17 on 8 Nov). No share of AI-written code is stated beyond “almost all of the code”, so none is recorded; Opus 5.5 is named in the post title. The developer is known only by the Reddit handle and writes in the first person; the X account @22champsgg is linked from the site. TypeScript is assumed from Next.js and not stated by the developer. All22Pokemon by ColeThereum is named as the inspiration; it is a separate project, and Pokémon material is not used in this game. The site's scripts load Riot's Data Dragon, Supabase and Vercel analytics and contain no AI service addresses. The game was not played.
Development history
Launched free in the browser, per the developer.
DeveloperReddit (u/SmittyMcDaniels)The developer shares the game on r/aigamedev, saying Claude Code wrote almost all of the code.
DeveloperReddit (u/SmittyMcDaniels)Patch 1.3.0 adds the Haunted Draft Halloween event (27 Oct to 1 Nov).
Observed22champs.comPatch 1.5.0 adds Easy, Normal and Hard CPU teams to Draft with Friends.
Observed22champs.com
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Browser (official site)
Free in the browser, with no ads and no account, per the developer. Draft with Friends runs live rooms online.
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Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| I built a League of Legends x Fantasy Football Draft style browser game with Claude Code (Opus 5.5) (r/aigamedev) Reddit (u/SmittyMcDaniels) | Social post | Oct 24, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| 22CHAMPS: Draft LoL Champions. Play Football. Go 17–0 22champs.com | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Patch Notes | 22CHAMPS 22champs.com | Official site | Nov 1, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) 22champs.com | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
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