Emote

See also: Emoting.

Emotes are expressive images primarily used in League of Legends as cosmetic flares. League emotes typically present champions with popular expressed emotions. Some emotes are used in-game, while some on social media sites.

Usage

Emotes can be purchased in the store for 350 a piece. During the initial launch, all Emotes were put on sale for 350 (where they originally had a cost of 450). Since patch V8.12 the price of emotes have been lowered from the initially 450 to 350 permanently. A Thumbs Up Emote is freely unlocked to all accounts.

Emotes can be equipped in the player's Collection or from Champion Select. The loadout includes a radial that can hold up to five emotes, as well as slots for Start Game, First Blood, Ace and Win.

Once in-game, you can access the pop-up radial using the assigned hotkey (default: [T]). The Start Game and End Game emotes will trigger automatically. ^[1] Players can only trigger a certain number of Emotes, including Champion Mastery Emotes, within a short space of time before having to wait to use another. Champion Mastery is still triggered using its own hotkey.

You can mute Enemy Emotes individually from the Scoreboard, or disable them entirely from Settings.

Emotes

Available

These emotes are available in The Store for 350.

Leveling Emotes

These emotes are given to players reaching certain summoner levels.

Ranked Emotes

These Emotes are Split Rewards during the Ranked Season. You unlock an Emote when you reach 500 Split Poins. The Emote is dynamic, it will change during your climb until the Split end. After it will remain the highest position you ended with in the Split.

Legacy Emotes

These emotes are not available in the store, however can drop via Hextech Crafting, Honor Capsules or Hextech Mystery Emote.

Essence Emporium

These emotes are only available during and via the Essence Emporium.

Unavailable

General

Content Creators Program

Mission

Crafting

eSport Viewing Reward

Rewards

eSport

Unknown Availability

The availability of these Emotes is currently unknown.

Non-Released eSport Emotes

Only the qualified Teams from the events got their Emotes released on the Live Server.

Chinese Server Exclusive Emotes

Former System

The following Emotes were released prior to the implementation of the Emote system (described above). These icons were tied to having specific Summoner icons equipped, their use was limited to the duration of the event in which they were introduced, and they replaced the Champion Mastery flare. Should these Emotes return in the future, they will be incorporated into the new system and will be freely gifted to players who previously earned them. Patch 7.24 reintroduced six of these former Emotes into the new system.

Emote	Icon	Reintroduced	Old Requirement	New Requirement
	All-Star Fire 2016	No	Bought the All-Star Fire Icon 2016	N/A
	All-Star Ice 2016	No	Bought the All-Star Ice Icon 2016	N/A
	N/A	No	April Fools Day 2016	N/A
	Poro Snax Lover 2016	Yes	Crafted with 36 Snowdown Sweets during the Snowdown Event 2016	Own the Icon or crafted with 2 Gemstone during the Snowdown Event 2017
	Re-Gifted Amumu 2016	Yes	Crafted with 24 Snowdown Sweets during the Snowdown Event 2016	Own the Icon or crafted with 1 Gemstone during the Snowdown Event 2017
	Snowbells 2016	Yes	Bought a 10 Winter Chest Bundle during the Snowdown Event 2016	Own the Icon or crafted with 1 Gemstone during the Snowdown Event 2017
	Chaos 2017	Yes	Crafted with 100 Chaos Token during the Vs. Event 2017	Own the Icon or purchase the Emote during the Vs. Event 2018
	Order 2017	Yes	Crafted with 100 Order Token during the Vs. Event 2017	Own the Icon or purchase the Emote during the Vs. Event 2018
	Battle Boss Baron 2017	Yes	Crafted with 80 Tickets during the Boss World Event 2017	Own the Icon
	N/A	No	China Masters League 2017	N/A

Social Media Emotes

Facebook Emotes

These were released as chat emotes for Facebook, and as such are primarily used on that site

League of Legends Boards Emotes

Masquerade

These Icons were made specifically to celebrate the Masquerade event of 2015 and 2016, an event celebrated on the Latin American and Brazilian servers. These Icons are available to download via this link and this.

FAQs

Trivia

• Initially, emotes were only confined to social media sites before being introduced in-game in patch V6.23 with the All-Star 2016 event.
• In patch V7.20 the new emote system was introduced with permanent unlockable emotes.
  • In patch V8.12 in-game emotes were given several updates including reduced price and added visual and sound effects.
• The You Look Familiar emote showcases PBE Pyke clothing textures.
• The Easy E-Z emote is a reference to the in-game term EZ (loosly meaning "Easy game") used at the end of a game.
• The Cassiopeia Message Boards emote is a reference to Cassiopeia's Serpentine Grace passive.
• The But Why? emote is the first emote that cannot be obtained through Hextech Crafting, mystery gifting, or the store. It was given out to players by content creators who received region specific codes.
• Numerous emotes are a reference to popular internet memes:
  • The Heeere's Poppy! emote is a reference to the classic Lollipoppy creepy face meme, and the emote's name is a reference to a scene in the movie Shining.
  • The Raise your Dongers! emote is a reference to the Raise your dongers meme.
  • The Such War emote is a reference to the Doge meme.
  • The Are You Serious emote might a reference to the *Concern* meme.
  • The According to Plan emote is a reference to the Anime Glasses meme.
  • The D'Pengu emote shows a penguin doing The Dab.
  • The Oh Darn emote is a reference to the Oh Darn meme video.
  • The Tell Me More... emote is a reference to the Condescending Wonka/Creepy Wonka meme.
  • The Mic Drop emote emote is a reference to the Mic Drop meme.
  • The Clean emote is a reference to the OK Symbol/Circle Game meme.
  • The But Why? emote is a reference to the But why? meme.
  • The Howdy emote is a reference to the *Tips Fedora* meme.
  • The Squee emote and its Facebook icon counterpart are references to the Feels Good meme.
  • The Deal with Grit emote and its Facebook icon counterpart are references to the Deal with it meme.
  • The Everything is Okay emote and its Facebook icon counterpart are references to the This Is Fine meme.
  • The Go Get 'Em emote and its Facebook icon counterpart are references to the Go get 'em, champ meme.
  • The Unbenched emote, Tahm Kench Facebook icon, and Zombie Nunu Message Boards emote are references to Pepe the Frog.
  • The All According To Plan emote and Darius Facebook icon are a reference to The Gendo Pose
  • The Are You Kidding? emote and Zombie Brand Message Boards emote are a reference to the My Brain is Full of Fuck/Jackie Chan WTF meme.
  • The OMG I love it emote and Zombie Slayer Pantheon Message Boards emote are a reference to the Puking Rainbows meme.
  • The Braum Facebook icon is a reference to the Sweating Towel Guy meme.
  • The Sona Facebook icon is a reference to the Flipping Tables meme / (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻.
  • The Lee Sin Facebook icon and the Zombie Brand Message Boards emote are references to the Facepalm meme.
  • The Leona Facebook icon and the Slayer Pantheon Message Boards emote are references to the Popcorn GIF memes.
  • The Teemo Facebook icon is a reference to the Success Kid/I Hate Sandcastles meme.
  • The Fizz Facebook icon is a reference to the Trollface meme.
  • The Zilean Facebook icon is a reference to the Can't Killean the Zilean meme video.
  • The Star Guardian Jinx Message Boards emote is a reference to the Mirai Nikki Yandere face meme.
  • The Star Guardian Miss Fortune Message Boards emote is a reference to the Noblewoman's Laugh memes.
  • The Star Guardian Ahri Message Boards emotes are references to the Drakeposting meme.
  • The  Yasuo Facebook Yasuo is a reference to the Oh crap face.
  • The Jayce Facebook icon is a reference to the Yao-Ming Face.

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