Real-Time Alerts
Never Miss a Patch That Matters
Instantly decode game balance changes — push, email, and Discord webhooks tuned to your playstyle.
Delivery Channels
Three Ways to Stay Ahead of the Meta
Choose the channel that fits your workflow — or stack all three so a critical nerf to your main never slips through the cracks.
Push Notifications
Native mobile and desktop push alerts delivered through the PatchPulse app. Tap a notification to open the full patch diff with before/after stat comparisons. Supports rich media — ability icons, champion portraits, and inline stat deltas render directly in the notification body on iOS 16+ and Android 13+ devices.
Latency: Sub-2-second delivery from patch publication to lock screen. Platforms: iOS, Android, Windows 11, macOS Sonoma.
Email Digests
Structured HTML emails sent to your registered address. Each message includes a summary table of changed values, linked to the full PatchPulse breakdown. You can opt into individual game titles — League of Legends, Valorant, Apex Legends, Overwatch 2 — or receive a cross-title digest compiled every 6 hours.
Frequency: Immediate (critical patches) or scheduled digest. Format: Dark-mode-friendly HTML with inline CSS, no external image dependencies.
Discord Webhooks
Drop a PatchPulse webhook URL into any Discord channel and receive embed-formatted alerts the moment a patch file lands. Embeds include game icon, patch number, Impact Score badge, and a collapsible spoiler block for full change logs. Role-based filtering lets you route League alerts to #lol-updates and Valorant alerts to #val-news in the same server.
Setup: One-click webhook generator in Settings → Integrations. Customization: Per-webhook game filters and Impact Score minimums.
Threshold Customization
Filter Noise with Impact Score Thresholds
Not every patch line deserves your attention. Set per-channel Impact Score minimums so only changes that actually shift the meta break through.
PatchPulse assigns every individual change an Impact Score from 0.0 to 10.0 based on four weighted factors: stat magnitude (damage, health, cooldown shifts), meta relevance (current tier placement of affected champions or agents), historical precedent (how often similar changes triggered tier shifts), and community velocity (rate of forum and social mentions in the 30 minutes following publication).
Configure thresholds independently for each channel:
Push — Threshold 7.0+
Ideal for competitive players who only need to know about game-breaking changes. At this level, you'll see nerfs to top-5 pick-rate champions, buff reversals on recently adjusted agents, and cooldown reductions exceeding 25% on core abilities. Average monthly alerts: 8–14.
Email — Threshold 4.0+
Balanced coverage for dedicated enthusiasts. Includes mid-tier reworks, weapon stat adjustments in the 5–15% range, and new content additions. You'll receive context-rich digest emails with full before/after tables and PatchPulse analyst commentary. Average monthly alerts: 35–60.
Discord — Threshold 1.0+
Comprehensive logging for community managers and content creators. Every tracked change — including minor texture swaps, voice line updates, and cosmetic adjustments — appears as a structured embed. Pair with Discord's native threading to keep channels organized. Average monthly alerts: 120–200.
All thresholds are adjustable in Settings → Alerts → Impact Score Filters. You can also create per-title overrides — for example, set League of Legends to 5.0 while keeping Valorant at 3.0 — using the dropdown matrix in the same panel.
Performance
Sub-Second Pipelines, Real-World Results
PatchPulse monitors official patch repositories via direct API hooks and live-diff scanning. From the moment Riot, Valorant, or Respawn publishes a change, our pipeline parses, scores, and routes alerts in under two seconds.
Our infrastructure runs on a three-stage pipeline:
Stage 1 — Detection (0.3s avg.) — WebSocket listeners on official CDN endpoints and RSS feeds detect new patch manifests. For games without public APIs (e.g., Apex Legends), we run scheduled diff scans against the live game files every 12 seconds, achieving effective detection within 15 seconds of publication.
Stage 2 — Parsing & Scoring (0.8s avg.) — Raw patch data is parsed into structured change objects, cross-referenced against our live meta database (current tier rankings, pick/ban rates, win-rate deltas from the past 48 hours), and assigned an Impact Score by our ML model trained on 4.2 million historical patch-line outcomes.
Stage 3 — Routing & Delivery (0.7s avg.) — Changes exceeding your configured thresholds are formatted per channel — push payload, HTML email template, or Discord embed — and dispatched through dedicated relay queues. Push notifications use Firebase Cloud Messaging and Apple Push Notification Service with priority flags; Discord webhooks use direct REST calls with exponential backoff retry.
99.94% Uptime
Measured across all three delivery channels in Q4 2024. Outages are limited to upstream provider incidents (APNs, FCM, Discord API) — PatchPulse's own relay infrastructure has not experienced a single-minute downtime since March 2023.
P95 Delivery: 1.4s
95th percentile end-to-end latency from patch publication to user notification. Measured across 1.2 million alert deliveries in the last 30 days. Push notifications average 1.1s; email digests average 2.3s (includes SMTP queue time); Discord webhooks average 0.9s.
Zero-Drift Scoring
Impact Scores are recalculated every 6 hours against updated meta data. If a champion's pick rate shifts by more than 5% after a patch, all associated change scores are re-evaluated and previously suppressed alerts may be escalated — you'll see a "Score Updated" badge on those notifications.