Riot, can you please bring back the box in the lower right corner of the league client home screen that allowed us to spectate live games of higher ranked players? I enjoyed spectating some of the players, especially when they play champions that I'm curious about. Thanks
Same, it was more fun than playing the game itself lol
Please riot, it helps alot since not all high ranked player's stream and it's good to get to watch as a low ranked player.
Does anyone know why they got rid of this?
Riot want all the attention on the LCS! Why spectate games from your server when you can be bombarded with ads for the latest battle between CLG and TSM?
But, you can still spectate Challenger games. Go to your profile/League/View Cahllenger tier/Top solo players. Scroll down. When you see a profile hat has a little eye icon next to the username, that means they are in game right now. And you can spectate it.
Almighty.
I learned a LOT about the game by spectating challenger players whenever I was leveling up last season
I miss that little window. I used to watch at least 2 games a week.
http://quickfind.kassad.in/featured-games
All of those games are the ones Riot would provide in the box. Just follow their instructions to get going.
plsssss bring back the spectate box i used to watch 4 games a day in it, sometimes 7 or 10 please
Go to the ranked list in client, select best players (or something like that), scroll down and look for an eye icon.
I'm sure they'll bring back something similar with the client update that's most likely coming at preseason. Be patient.
I also miss this. It was a really good feature.
You can still do it by going to leagues>top solo players> find one playing a game> spectate
pls bring it back
THANK YOU. I loved that little box, and the games were even more entertaining than watching pros duke it out at Worlds! I did more watching than playing!
What if I want to learn more about how to play against a certain matchup in real time. You can't do that by going to the league leaderboard spectates because you don't know who they are playing and who they are playing against. Sure there is Youtube, but i'd rather watch a live game then scour countless Youtube videos.
This needs to be a thing for when you are waiting in queue.
I sometimes showed up in those boxes (same with my IRL friends). It was always nice having someone add me after they saw me play, being able to help people asking for pointers on champions, or just giving a "nice play!". Totally bummed me out when they removed it, 'cause I used to watch a TON of games with it while I did other stuff around the house/trying to sleep, etc.
If Riot eventually re-implements that feature, it'd be nice if it'd show more Treeline and ARAM games. There's plenty of other places for high-level SR play, but very few places to see high-level TT/ARAM play. The other maps could use the extra advertisement too.
Yes! Bring this box back! I loved watching higher ranked matches at anytime of the day, especially if they were playing champions that I was interested about. Like I'd watch high ranked players for a champ and then I could check their rune pages and mastery after the game where I watched how they used that champ to either good effect or got stomped. Frankly I'd watch a lot of games with that button when it was still around and I really really miss it.
This is a feature I miss a lot as well - it was very convenient and I always had a good chuckle at some of the creative names the higher elo players had. Definitely support in wanting this feature back.
I remember that. I loved seeing a champion I wanted to learn in a high ranking game and being able to watch them.
I even made it up there once. :D Must have been a slow day, lol.
You can actually get it back! I can't take credit for this, but after months of being frustrated about this, I checked to see if someone had found a solution, and I found this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/4rhymk/what_happened_to_the_spectate_high_elo_players/
Instructions:
Go to C:\Riot Games\League of Legends\RADS\projects\lol_air_client_config_na\releases\0.0.0.58\deploy\ and find the file called "lol.properties" (This is a text file, so open it with a text editor. You will need to adjust your folder path depending on install location or version changes.)
Find this line: lobbyLandingURL=https://frontpage.na.leagueoflegends.com/$localeCode/client/landing
Change it to: lobbyLandingURL=
Save the file. (It's also a good idea to save a backup of the original in case you wish to revert easily.)
What the client seems to do is load a webpage onto the main client page. When you remove this URL, the client will show a different layout, and the Spectate Live section will be on the upper left of the main page.
Since this change is just preventing a page from loading (You could also possibly just block this with your firewall instead of altering the file, but I haven't tested this.), I don't believe that this is against Riot's terms of service, and they're still providing the old spectate functionality. This doesn't change the in-game files in any way.
Again, I can't take credit for this, but let your friends know that they can spectate again if they wish!
I licked it simply because I could watch high egos play the champions I do and gain a sense for certain combos or items to build when faced with certain champions
Really hoping they add it back as well.
First you could see high elo matches. Then the spectate box disappeared. When it came back, you could only see low elo matches. Then it disappeared again.
I even remember they had the option to switch between a promoted advertisement and the spectate box. Riot please....
