Basic Emotes
I realize that most of the money Riot makes from players is purchase of cosmetics, and emotes is another potential market for cosmetics. I'm OK with that. However... if we also agree that emotes are another way of communicating with our fellow players, there needs to be a few basic emotes players can pick from. Just having a "thumbs up" emote isn't enough to allow regular players to use this as a way of communicating.
I'm not sure what all to add; perhaps a "thumb's down" and a "meh" face (good, bad, indifferent). Maybe a pair of boots (I'm running!) maybe a fist (I'm ready to fight!) ...I mean, I don't spend a lot of money with RIOT (and that's because I don't need to, which is amazing) and I definitely don't see myself buying any fancy emotes, ever, but the current emote system without a baseline set, is kinda useless.