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.
These emotes are split rewards during the Ranked Season. You unlock an emote when you reach 500 Split Points. The emote is dynamic and will change dependending on your placings.
These Emotes could be obtained via their corresponding TFT Pass. Some were obtainable without purchasing the full TFT pass, while others required it beforhand.
Expect from the common 2018 Championship Emote, all eSports Emotes have been bundle exclusive. The golden eSports Emotes have been bundle exclusive for the Gold Supporter Bundle.
Unknown Availability
The availability of these Emotes is currently unknown.
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