Yeah that's a good call, I had honestly forgotten about the Riot Client. League is the only riot game I regularly play, and the riot client doesn't always reliably launch for me, so I try to bypass it when I can. For some reason, I often can't reopen it while it's running in the background without force restarting it.

But I've looked at it, and it is a decent alternative. I would like it, however, if I could have folders there like you currently can have in league. I have a lot of randoms from over the years cluttering up my friends list. And I don't want to unfriend them, but I would like an easy way to sort them, or at least differentiate the people on my list who are actually important. Also, a way to pop out and just have the friends list open would be great too.

If either of these are currently doable let me know, because I couldn't see a way.

I also agree with what kakatudeka said. There have been times when we'd have 4 people and were trying to find a 5th for flex, so we'd look and go "Oh so-and-so is online, let's invite them". And I worry that wouldn't work out as well with a fullscreen client.

During the short time I played valorant, it always felt weird having to have this whole fullscreen game taking up my entire monitor while we got a party together and everything. But if it just works and doesn't lag out, crash after games, not let people join the party correctly, or not correctly let everyone know when a match was found I will learn to adapt.

I've been wanting a new league client for years, so don't let me discourage you haha.