- Not to be confused with Emotes, the image flares.
Each champion and skin has a set of non-gameplay-related expressions that exist for immersion purposes; all of them possess a Joke, Taunt, Dance and Laugh emote, while a small number of them also possess a Toggle emote. These emotes include an animation, often accompanied by voicelines and/or sound effects. They are visible and audible to all players that are looking at the performing champion.
Emotes can be activated in two ways:
- By entering
/joke(/j) —/taunt(/t) —/dance(/d) —/laugh(/l) —/toggle(/g) in the chat. - By using their respective hotkeys. Default: CTRL+1, CTRL+2, CTRL+3, CTRL+4, CTRL+5.
Special Emotes[]
Heimerdinger can toggle between a walk animation that references his pre-VGU one and his post-VGU walk cycle by using any emote. Triggering Hextech Affinity will reset his walk animation to post-VGU.- Samira can cast her Taunt ability using her Taunt.
Toggles[]
Toggles can range from simply being a fifth non-specific emote, to changing a skin's special cosmetic function entirely.
The toggle emote is not present in all champions' or skins' emote set. Some champions' toggles are present in all their skins. Other champions that do not have a toggle in their base skin may have one introduced in a different skin.
- Manually switch his stance and the presence of his banner wings. His stance also switches when his innate is available.
- Swap between wearing or not wearing her virtual visor (can be done only while walking). If not wearing it already, she will also wear it upon entering the enemy half of the map.
- Toggle the position of his meeps.
- Cue his skin's special music instead of the default current map theme.
- Toggle playing his Homeguard stance, but with jets instead and while moving normally without the buff. This stance automatically ends upon an action other than movement.
- Toggle the presence of her void suit's helmet. It will also cover her face during Evolved Supercharge's buff.
- Cycle through her acquired daggers (after acquiring at least three kills and every three thereafter, up to 18 kills for 6 daggers total).
- Switch her final forms (after reaching level 18).
- Plays Neeko's Joke emote but for her Shapesplitter clone only.
- Plays a special emote that includes sounds of machine movement, Nunu fixing a malfunction that Willump has, and Willump appreciating it. This emote may also play when idling.
- Swap between his harpoon having a glowing sheen and not having one. The sheen version also plays during Bone Skewer.
- Perform the dab move (after getting a takedown).
- Toggle the presence of his head appendage.
- Can wear or drop his hood.
- Plays a special emote wherein Rumble jumps around Tristy.
- Cycle through her three musical forms which includes the music theme.
- Swap between wearing her shades on her face or on top of her head.
- Plays a special emote wherein he thumps his chest in determination and roars aggressively.
- Plays a special emote wherein he recalls his Azakana blade to the spirit realm and sheathes his Steel blade. This emote may also play when idling.
- Manually cycle through a number of walk animations. This also happens automatically over the game.
Trivia[]
- At one point, many players believed that emoting could be heard even if the performer was in a brush. This is not true.
- Emotes can be repeatedly used in order to continuously reset their animation cycle.
- Emotes' voice lines usually cannot be interrupted by any means other than casting the ultimate ability and death.
- Emotes' sound effects will repeat each time the emote is performed, creating a droning effect when spammed.
- Emotes can be canceled without consequence — the champion is not forced to finish the animation (as may be the case in some other games).
