Two of the most installed League apps, both free with ads, and both solving a different problem. Here is how to pick, plus the itemization gap neither of them covers.
One disclosure before going further: we build Hexgate, an in-game build overlay. It is not a replacement for either app and it shows up in this article exactly once as a serious option, for the one thing Mobalytics and Porofessor both skip. Everything else here is a straight comparison of the two apps you searched for.
Mobalytics is a coaching and analytics platform with an overlay attached. Porofessor is a live game scouting tool with some in-game helpers attached. They overlap far less than their marketing suggests, so the question is really which weakness in your gameplay you want to patch first.
If you want to improve over time
The GPI score breaks your play into measurable skills, and the post-game analysis is the deepest in the ecosystem at telling you why you lost.
If you want to know who is in your lobby
Ranks, win rates and playstyle tags for all ten players, automatically, in champ select, plus jungle and ward timers in game.
Third option: Hexgate. Whichever of the two you pick, the build it hands you is the average build. Hexgate re-scores items against the live enemy comp, with no Overwolf and no ads.
See what it addsBoth apps have lived on Overwolf, both show you a loading screen overlay, and both can hand you a build. That surface similarity is why so many players search "Mobalytics or Porofessor" as if they were interchangeable. They are not.
Mobalytics is built around the time after the game. Its signature feature is the Gamer Performance Index (GPI), which scores your play across categories like Farming, Fighting, Vision, Survivability, Aggression, and Consistency. The post-game analysis is the most serious attempt in the League ecosystem at explaining why you lost rather than just that you lost. The in-game overlay exists, with CS benchmarks, power spike timers, and objective reminders, but it is not the star of the product.
Porofessor is built around the minute before the game. When you enter champ select, it looks up all ten players and surfaces rank, win rate, games played this season, main role, and behavioral tags built from match history: on a loss streak, playing off-role, one-tricking a champion. It is backed by the League of Graphs team, so the stats have a long track record. Once minions spawn, it offers jungle timers, ward timers, and objective reminders, but the reason people install it is the lobby breakdown.
So the honest framing is: Mobalytics helps you fix patterns across dozens of games. Porofessor helps you make better decisions in this specific game, based on who is in it. Those are both legitimate, and they are not the same thing.
What Mobalytics does well
The GPI is the reason to use Mobalytics. If you have ever wondered whether your problem is mechanics, macro, or vision, a per-category score across your recent games gives you an answer you cannot get from a win-loss column. Players who treat ranked like a sport and want a feedback loop that lasts months get real value here.
The pre-game scouting is solid too. Mobalytics shows opponent breakdowns with champion pools, tendencies, and recent form, and the overlay provides live insights during the game. It is not as focused on the lobby as Porofessor, but it is not an afterthought either.
Mobalytics also covers more than League: TFT, Valorant, and other titles run through the same app, which matters if you split your time between games.
Where Mobalytics falls short
What Porofessor does well
Porofessor's live game lookup is the best-known implementation of its kind. Within seconds of entering champ select you know the enemy top laner is autofilled, the enemy jungler is on a ten-game win streak, and the enemy mid is a one-trick with a high win rate. That changes real decisions: which side of the map to play through, which lane your jungler should path toward, whether to respect a smurf or punish an off-role.
It also delivers that information without alt-tabbing. The overlay appears where the decision happens, which is exactly where a scouting tool should live. Setup is minimal, and the data behind it comes from the League of Graphs team, so you are not trusting a new stats source.
Where Porofessor falls short
| Feature | Mobalytics | Porofessor | Third optionHexgate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live game scouting | Yes - opponent profiles | Yes - best in class | Lane opponent and enemy jungler habits (Pro+) |
| Player tags & history | Yes | Yes - playstyle tags | No |
| Post-game analytics | Yes - GPI system | No | Yes - Match Breakdown (Pro+) |
| Performance tracking | Yes - best in class | No | No |
| Jungle/ward timers | Yes | Yes | No |
| Rune import | Yes | Yes | Yes - one click |
| Build recommendations | Static aggregate | Static aggregate | Adaptive - per enemy comp |
| Lane matchup scoring | No | No | Yes (Pro) |
| OTP builds | No | No | Yes (Pro) |
| Multi-game support | LoL, TFT, Val, more | LoL | LoL only |
| Requires Overwolf | Yes | No - standalone or Overwolf version | No - native Tauri/Rust |
| Ads on free tier | Yes | Yes | No |
| Free tier | Full app + ads | Full scouting + ads | 3 games/day |
| Paid tier | Plus ($9.99/mo, $5.83/mo yearly) | Premium subscription | €9.99/mo or €7.49/mo annual; Pro+ €14.99/mo |
| Platforms | Windows (via Overwolf) | Windows (standalone or Overwolf) | Windows |
This used to be where the two apps were most alike, and it is worth being precise about what it costs you.
Overwolf is a host platform. Mobalytics runs inside it, and so does the Overwolf version of Porofessor. On Overwolf you are running two processes on top of League: the host, plus the app. Overwolf itself carries a browser-engine-sized memory footprint before the app adds its own. Mobalytics, with its overlay widgets and analytics, adds its own load on top. Porofessor is lighter, and its standalone version (December 2025) skips the host entirely.
Running both at once is technically fine (with Porofessor's Overwolf version they even share one Overwolf instance). In practice that is three browser-sized processes plus League plus Discord, and the two apps duplicate each other's in-game helpers (both ship jungle and objective timers). Most players who try it end up keeping one app installed and using the other's website.
Rule of thumb: with 16 GB of RAM or more and comfortable FPS, run whichever you like; the overhead will not decide games. Below that, every Overwolf-hosted app is a real cost. Pick one heavy app at most, or pair lightweight standalone tools that each do one job.
Both apps are fine. Mobalytics and Porofessor read publicly available match history and live game data through Riot's official APIs. Neither modifies game files, reads game memory, injects into the game process, or automates input. Riot's third-party policy allows tools that surface information a player could track manually, and both apps stay within that line.
Riot did tighten the rules in 2025: enemy ultimate alerts were banned from overlays, the Spectator API was deactivated to prevent player deanonymization, and in-game overlay advertisements were banned mid-year. All the major apps adjusted. None of the tools in this article will get you banned. The ones that do are the ones promising scripting or automation, and neither of these is one of them.
Here is the part where Hexgate comes in, and the reason we wrote this comparison at all.
Look at the "Build recommendations" row in the table. Mobalytics and Porofessor both hand you a build, and both builds are the same kind of thing: the highest win rate item path for your champion across all games this patch. It is computed before the loading screen and it does not change afterward. If the enemy team turns out to be four AD champions and a Malphite, the recommended build is identical to the one you would get against five mages.
That is not a criticism of either app; it is just outside what they were built to do. Mobalytics was built to analyze you. Porofessor was built to scout them. Neither was built to sit in the item shop with you at 14 minutes and say "three of the five enemies are AP, and the fed one is Katarina, so this is the slot to buy magic resist."
Hexgate was built for exactly that moment. It reads the enemy team from Riot's Live Client Data API during the game and scores every viable item for your champion and build slot. Core early items stay pick-rate driven, because the first two slots rarely change. The situational slots adapt: enemy physical and magic damage split, crowd control density, healing and shield sources, tankiness, and who on their team is fed.
What Hexgate adds
What it does not replace
Zed and Kha'Zix on the enemy team: Zhonya's Hourglass jumps to first for Ahri's 3rd item, tagged Heavy AD.
Akali and Malphite on the enemy team: Mercurial Scimitar leads Jinx's 5th item, tagged Heavy AP.
Diana, Mordekaiser and Syndra on the enemy team: Kaenic Rookern leads Leona's 3rd item and the boots switch to Mercury's Treads.
Sivir on the enemy team: Guardian Angel and Death's Dance move to the top of Vi's 3rd item and the boots switch to Plated Steelcaps.
Hexgate does not replace either app. It covers the decision both of them leave to you, and on Pro+ it tells you afterwards why the game went the way it did. Pair it with either app; the overlap is close to zero.
The GPI and post-game analysis give you a feedback loop nothing else in the ecosystem matches. If your ranked problem is "I keep making the same mistakes and cannot see them," Mobalytics is the tool that shows you. Accept the heavier footprint, the ads on the free tier, and that the best parts sit behind Plus.
If you actively use scouting (dodging bad matchups, pathing toward weak lanes, respecting smurfs, punishing autofills), Porofessor gives you the best version of that information with minimal setup. Accept the ads as the price, plus Overwolf unless you install the standalone version. If you would just glance at the ranks and forget them, you do not need it.
Whichever of the two you pick, the build it hands you is the average build. If you honestly could not say what you would build against a triple-tank comp versus a full-squishy comp, that is a bigger leak than either scouting or analytics will patch. Hexgate automates that decision every game, with no platform overhead.
Try Hexgate freeThey are better at different things. Mobalytics is the stronger tool for improvement: its GPI score and post-game analysis tell you why you lost. Porofessor is the stronger tool for live game scouting: it shows every player's rank, win rate, and playstyle tags in champ select. Pick Mobalytics if you want to fix recurring mistakes, Porofessor if lobby information changes how you play.
Yes, they can run side by side. The cost is memory: Mobalytics brings the Overwolf platform and Porofessor adds its own app on top, a heavy stack next to League, and both have overlapping in-game helpers, so most players pick one and keep the other's website open for reference.
Mobalytics does: its League app runs on the Overwolf platform, so Overwolf is a second process alongside the app. Porofessor no longer has to. Since December 5, 2025 Porofessor also ships a standalone app that runs without Overwolf, and its Overwolf version is still supported. On machines with 16 GB of RAM or less that extra runtime is noticeable.
Yes. Both read publicly available match history and live game data through Riot's official APIs. Neither modifies game files, reads game memory, or injects into the game process, so neither will get you banned.
No. Both Mobalytics and Porofessor recommend static, aggregate builds: the highest win rate build for your champion across all games, decided before the match starts. Neither looks at the five enemies you are actually facing. Hexgate is a separate overlay built specifically for that gap: it reads the live enemy composition and re-scores items against their damage split, CC, healing, tankiness, and fed threats.
Mobalytics and Porofessor are both good at what they were built for, and the "vs" framing mostly hides that they were built for different things. Analytics after the game, or information before it. If your PC has headroom, either is a reasonable install; if you can only afford one heavy app, pick the one that targets the way you actually lose games.
Then notice what neither one touches: the fifteen minutes of itemization decisions in the middle. That is the half of the problem both apps hand back to you, and it is the half Hexgate was built to close. Try it free next to whichever app you choose, queue into a lopsided comp, and compare what it recommends against the static build you would have imported.
For the broader picture, see our roundup of the best LoL overlays in 2026, or the direct Hexgate vs Porofessor and Hexgate vs Blitz vs Mobalytics comparisons.