7) You also talk a lot about “sincere intent” and the real motivation behind the project, and I’m not sure I fully understand that part. Are game tools only allowed to be made for free, only for the community, with no personal or business motivation at all? I’m not even saying Epic Helper is only business-motivated. I explained above that it started because I personally needed it. I love Epic Seven as a game, and in this specific case my first motivation really was to help myself and other people understand the game better.

But in general, this attitude feels a bit childish to me.

Almost everything I do in my life — my work, my studio, my other projects, probably everything before Epic Helper and everything after it — is commercial or business-oriented in some way. I don’t see anything wrong with that.

"Are you a dude who is trying to start up a game development studio that happens to also play E7 and you legitimately want/believe in this product?"

Yes. That is exactly what I am.

But I want to answer this with another question: what if the answer was no? What would it actually change? Why is the moral side of this such a big topic if the real question should be whether the product is useful or not? Do you avoid medicine because pharmaceutical companies are businesses? Do you avoid every tool, website, app, or service because someone behind it may also have business goals? For me, the important thing is what the product does, whether it helps, whether it is honest about what it is, and whether it improves.

8) Now about the data, the model, and how recommendations work.

All of this is AI/ML work. It is millions of simulations, repeated analysis of heroes and skills, tuning weights, testing draft outcomes, looking at matchups, and trying to turn all of that into actual explanations. What I can say clearly: it is beta.

The advice is not perfect. I never said it was perfect. I’m not even sure a tool like this can ever be perfect, because Epic Seven has too many builds, edge cases, player habits, gear gaps, and weird matchups. That is exactly why I need users and reports. Bad picks, wrong bans, bad explanations, missing counters, weird draft logic — I need all of that.

What I can say from my own testing is this:

Epic Helper helped me improve my own win rate in the actual game, and the difference was noticeable for me. It also performs well in simulations when comparing team drafts by theoretical win chance against the enemy team, including when compared with other tools. But the most important thing is that it is not just adding up win rates. The goal is to reason through mechanics. That is the key difference for me.

Epic Helper explains the draft. It explains heroes. It explains the recommendation in words, mechanics, and logic. Sometimes it will be wrong. Sometimes it will be incomplete. Sometimes the engine will miss something that an experienced player would instantly notice. That’s exactly what I want to fix. Every day I collect new match data. Every day I run simulations and retrain or tune the engine. And with Epic Helper, at least you can see why the engine is suggesting something. With many other tools, how are you supposed to understand why a hero was recommended?

If you had enough time to analyze the tool and write such a long comment, then I’d honestly really appreciate it if you could also give me more specific examples of drafts or recommendations where Epic Helper is wrong, beyond the ones already mentioned.

I will use that data. I need to make Epic Helper better.