Not sure how you can make that statement about high level players. What evidence do you have? Our eye tracking studies suggest otherwise. Even if that were the case, we wouldn't make the feature if it was only effective for high level players. Let me be clear that I think the information can be useful, but there are problems with presenting it *effectively* that make it a lower priority for us vs. more high value changes.

What about just having it in the scoreboard for your team? You can already see what Summoner Spells they took there; why not have you be able to see what the cooldowns of their abilities are?

Note that this would ONLY be for your allies. When it comes to the enemy, you're on your own.

You do eye tracking studies on the current league UI? Where, when, and how? If you think team frames aren't useful, let me point out the immense amount of utility that most MMO players, including PvPers, get from team raid frames. If there's an observed lack of use of your sidebar, maybe that's because it's in the wrong bloody place. Eye movement to get from action-to-sidebar and back is too high, even if the sidebar has tons of useful information I could benefit from.

If you have trouble thinking up how to effectively present that data, maybe you should rethink your career path, because I certainly can. Add two more light buttons to the side of the portraits, color code them for summoner spells. Allow the frames to be moved around. Change the brightness of the portrait of a champion depending on how close they are to you.

Your logic for player utility is flawed, as well. Colorblind mode didn't exist for a long time because "only colorblind players would need it, and they're a tiny minority" and then once implemented, many players found the color changes useful even if they weren't colorblind. A change for a minority actually helped the wide majority. (watch some streams if you aren't convinced)

To be frank, just go ask a WoW PvP forum what the best UI mod(s) are, see what features it has, and start to include them in League.

you ask what evidence he has that high elo players would use this information, as a low elo player i tell you I WOULD USE THAT INFO, and if I am at low elo lvls im damn sure ppl at a higher elo would 2.

I'm not sure what would be more high-value (aside from automated red/blue/drag/baron timers if you had vision of them dying). As for only high-level players - I really disagree with that. A high skill ceiling means room to improve as a player.

What i hate most about side menu is green dot - it is binary and doesn't really make it clear what it represents, heck it doesn't even really pick people curiosity. Lately i played with a friend whose playing this game for around 20months and he didn't know what it was all about, heck i'm not even sure if anyone on my friendlist knew it before my explanation.

Bourns, could you easily implement the cooldowns in the "tab" screen scoreboard where it clearly shows your team mates summoner choice already?

As a jungler, SS cooldowns are very important to me for ganking lanes, usually I have to ask the laners in chat if they have CD to land a stun/etc, being able to track that with a tab would be super convenient. Even for tracking spells like TP for planning drakes and cross lane ganks or showing your team mates that your smite is down for baron/dragon attempts.

My evidence is that I have played in many many games where Junglers and other players will coordinate their cooldowns together before a teamfight. When I am jungling and about to gank a lane I always look and see if their ult is up, and if not I ask how much longer. If I had more time I would love to ask about their ignite/exhaust is up as well.

In addition to that, once again, we all already are trained to look and see if someone is about to re-spawn so we can delay killing Baron, and we look over to see how much health/mana a team mate has. And we look over there for a tiny green dot showing if their ult is up.

Honestly, having the ability to see if their Summoner Spells are up or not would save us tons of time and make it actually more worthwhile to pull our eyes from the fight to look over there for health/mana/ult because we would also gain more information.

Once again... let me state I think the information is useful, don't feel like you need to convince me. Presenting it clearly and having people be able to notice it is harder. Sure I could fix the problem for you with one of these proposed solutions, but I would rather see something that communicated to a larger number of players. The team sidebar is not a great space to present more information right now, we'd like to make it so in the future, but I can't promise you anything concrete right now.

Couldn't one possibility be to have two dots below the green one? Color coded to try and match the summoner spell color? Or tiny squares that are miniature summoner spell squares? There are several small additions I can see being made, not saying you haven't thought of them, but some sort of indicator could be beneficial. Also It took me about 9 months to know what the green dot was for, so more dots would simply go with learning what the current grren one. I frequently would like to know what my allies have, but since I can't type quickly and efficently I don't have much choice. This isn't a priority, but to not have a feature like this ever seems a bit silly.