Valorant, Riot Games’ fast-paced tactical shooter, thrives on teamwork and the connections forged in intense matches. Players frequently add teammates and opponents to their friends lists, building a network over countless hours of gameplay.
However, a common question arises: is there a way to view a comprehensive history of everyone you’ve ever added on Valorant? The short answer, for now, is no.
Understanding the Valorant Friends List
Valorant’s social features are deeply integrated within the broader Riot Games ecosystem.
When you add a friend in Valorant, that connection extends across all Riot titles linked to your account, including League of Legends and Legends of Runeterra. The friends list you see in Valorant is a unified list across these games.
To view your current friends in Valorant:
- Launch Valorant and Log In: Open the game and navigate to the home screen.
- Expand the Social Sidebar: On the right side of the screen, locate and click to expand the social panel.
- Current Friends Displayed: This sidebar will immediately show your current friends, indicating their online or offline status. From here, you can also add new friends or remove existing ones.
The Absence of a “Friends History”
Despite being a highly requested feature, Valorant currently lacks a built-in function to display a complete history of every friend ever added, particularly those who have been removed or unfriended.
Your in-game friends list, as well as the one accessible through the Riot Mobile app, only shows your active, current contacts. Once a connection is severed, there’s no official way to retrieve or view that past friendship within Riot’s game clients or mobile applications.
Alternative Methods and Their Limitations
Given the lack of an official historical friends list, players have explored alternative avenues, though these come with significant limitations:
- Manual Tracking: The most reliable, albeit unfeasible for most, method would be to manually keep a personal record of every friend added. Riot Games does not provide an automated way to track this historical data.
- Third-Party Services: While some third-party trackers, like Tracker Network, offer insights into in-game statistics and recent lobbies, they are unable to pull a full historical friends list. This is because Riot’s API (Application Programming Interface) does not expose this specific data to external services.
- Recent Players: You can review players from your recent matches by accessing the “Career” tab. Clicking into a match’s scoreboard allows you to see and potentially re-add individuals you’ve recently played with. However, this only provides a snapshot of recent teammates and opponents, not your entire friend history.
Riot Mobile: A Companion, Not a Historian
The Riot Mobile companion app mirrors the in-game friends list, allowing you to chat, see who’s online, and manage your contacts on the go. However, it operates under the same constraint: only your current friends are displayed; past connections are not retained.
The Final Word
Currently, there is no official method within Valorant or any associated Riot service to view a comprehensive list of everyone you have ever added to your friends list, including those who have been removed or deleted. Players are limited to managing and viewing only their current Riot friends.
For those who desire a more robust friend management system with historical tracking, the most effective course of action is to provide feedback directly to Riot Games through their official support channels and forums. The community has frequently voiced the need for such features.
Until then, your Valorant friends list remains focused on the present, making personal record-keeping the only way to retain a complete history of your in-game connections.
Written by:
Christian