Emote changes in 8.12

Riot·Jun 12, 2018·2 votes·40,527 views

Emotes have upped their game and have a few new tricks to show off in patch 8.12. Here’s what’s new:

EMOTES NOW 350

We hear you and are smacking emote prices with the nerfbat. Since we normally try to communicate price changes two weeks in advance, we’re refunding the difference to anybody who purchased an emote for 450 RP in the last two weeks (May 29 at 12:01 AM PT – June 11 at 11:59 PM PT). This partial refund should appear in your account by June 26, 2018, and we’ll send you an email when it’s done.

As thanks for early emoters, you’ll receive an animated M’Pengu if you purchased any emotes before 8.12 (he'll show up in your account by June 26). He can also be crafted for five gemstones from June 26 – July 10.

For more information on the price change and our official refund policy, please see our Player Support FAQ.

EMOTE BUBBLES

Ever wish you could give a kissy-face to your precious toplaner for their crispy first blood, but you’re all the way over in bot lane? Emote bubbles show all emotes from teammates on the left side of the screen. You can disable this in the Settings menu if your friends get too excited.

NEW AUTO-FIRE SLOTS: FIRST BLOOD AND ACE

Show ‘em how you feel without having to think. Slot in your best smile for automatic use on First Blood and Ace.

NOISES FOR EVERYONE

Sing the song of the Pengu: All emotes now include sounds.

COLLECTION UPDATES

You can now view, sort, and purchase emotes you don’t have from your collection.

MYSTERY EMOTE TOKENS

Mystery emotes have freed themselves from bundle reign and are now available on their own. Mystery Emote Tokens (195 RP) will randomly award an unowned emote and will be periodically available in the store. They also drop previously purchasable event emotes that are otherwise unavailable! (But not the earnable emotes. People worked for those.)

REGULAR EMOTE SALES

Emotes older than six months have joined the regular skin sale schedule. Catch them in the League store with the other regular sales.

NEW EMOTES

Yikes
Go Team!
Hype Kitty
Okay
Joy Pengu

Grab all five in the Team-Motes Bundle for 925 RP before it expires on July 10, 2018, at 11:59 PM PT.

125 Comments

KyriaTheMysticJun 12, 201855 votes

Ok, good for the people who enjoy these. When do I get a setting that lets me start with all Emotes muted at the start of each match?

KinjishiJun 13, 201821 votes

Amen. Having to mute these each game is incredibly annoying.

KinjishiJun 13, 201816 votes

If we can mute All Chat in client, then we should be able to mute All Emotes as well. This seems doable - just a matter of Riot willing to code it.

100 MattJun 13, 20189 votes

As soon as you hit the rift, just hit tab and click all the boxes. You have time to do that, buy, and spam dance all before those slow ass base gates come down.

SizraJun 13, 201817 votes

they didnt say they didnt have time, just that its annoying, and i can agree it would be annoying. i dont personally have a problem with emotes, but for those that do, i think it would benefit players to have a muted command like /mute all emotes or a button in settings. See you on the rift!

SkipperdedooJun 13, 20187 votes

Literally just get in-game, press Escape -> Interface -> Scroll down to Emotes and hit the 'Mute Enemy Emotes' button.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

VerandureJun 15, 20182 votes

That doesn't get rid of allied emotes.

forrestoJun 14, 20182 votes

might as well throw in a laugh button ban while you're at it so you don't have to deal with laugh spammers XD

Morning RavenJun 12, 201832 votes

Sounds great. Can you please add the blond tips to Sona's pigtails?

LadyJun 12, 201811 votes

agreed. Kind of a silly mistake to look over her blonde tips but still an emote I plan on getting :T [sona-playing]

SebetaiJun 12, 201819 votes

Can emotes be part of the blue essence emporium as well.

Zac x MeJun 12, 201817 votes

emotes promote toxicity nothing more

CardSharksJun 13, 201810 votes

Ikr I like how they are like "yea we aren't gonna add voice chat cause it's another outlet for toxicity" then they add emotes so you can bm, even if you don't have a mastery

CópiaAutenticadaJun 12, 201814 votes

Is this option to disable is gonna be only for emote bubbles or for emotes in general? cuz I have to individualy disable it for everyone every time I get into a game and I'm tired of doing that...

KinjishiJun 13, 20189 votes

Agreed. There should be a global setting in the client to turn off emotes before even going into a game.

CepheusJun 13, 201810 votes

Getting real sick of emotes. Making them the final reward in quest lines does take the pressure off to actually finish so thats nice. Cant wait for the disable all option in client.

StarrakaJun 12, 20188 votes

i hope eventually we can have more than 5 emotes on the wheel, thad be super awsome! =D

Riven The ExileJun 14, 20182 votes

More power to bm [sg-lulu]

kittenCornJun 13, 20188 votes

Morgana is so UNDER APPRECIATED. No summoner icons. No emotes. No really cool skins. But Sona gets another emote? Come on...

[slayer-jinx-unamused]

MagoniJun 13, 20188 votes

She has an icon its pretty cute (one of the chibi ones) and I personally think she has a few nice skins(lunar wraith, victorious, and ghost bride) although the model could be updated.

Beached ManateeJun 14, 20182 votes

Blackthorn and Bewitched are also super nice

OmegaZero69Jun 14, 20182 votes

yeah she has the chibi one and its my favorite one from the first batch. I hope they make more chibi ones.

Rorschach696Jun 14, 20188 votes

yes this is all fine and dandy now give me a fucking button to disable them all!!!

adjothJun 14, 20187 votes

10/10 will disable global emotes. [sg-ahri-3]

ççççççççççççççççJun 17, 20182 votes

one click not 9

Kimmie923Jun 13, 20185 votes

Well, as someone who has now technically lost a lot of RP for purchasing emotes earlier on... Nice changes, I really appreciate emotes being less overpriced than before [cass-cry]

DarkMoth101Jun 13, 20185 votes

Where is my animated pengu emote located? I cant find it.[sg-janna]

Vhan8765Jun 13, 20184 votes

I like the changes but I still feel like either we need more Emote Slots or some separate Emote Pages at least.

It's one thing needing to change runes during most champ selects now, but it's another thing wanting to change my emotes depending on the champion I am. Sometimes it's just a pain trying to have enough time to change both before the game starts, especially in other game modes. If adding more slots to the available wheel seems like a bad idea for whatever reason, then emote pages would still solve the problem a lot so I can have specific emote pages for when I play certain champions; especially when some champions have multiple emotes.

SichemJun 13, 20184 votes

What if I told you I earned all of my emotes...

BelongsNTheTrashJun 14, 20184 votes

Still not seeing where I can gift friends an emote, how hard can this be and they've been out for a while. This was something that was supposed to be added a while ago and should've just been there from the beginning.
[sg-lux-2]

CthuluTheTurtleJun 14, 20184 votes

I just really do not care for emotes. If all i get from a chest is an emote i will never use or care about then i feel cheated.

BushidoBladeJun 13, 20183 votes

Since 1350 is the regular price for decent skins, like 975 used to be for similar quality, I've just stopped buying things from the store. These kinds of predatory practices where Riot is overcharging for skins, boxes, and emotes, convinced me, and I can imagine many others, from spending any more money on this game. Long time player that spent thousands on league and I've had enough. I play about 1/8th as much as I used to and I won't be supporting Riot anymore until prices lower.

Ch0ppedSushiJun 14, 20188 votes

predatory? the game is free, cosmetics are not...

BushidoBladeJun 14, 20182 votes

{quoted}

predatory? the game is free, cosmetics are not...

what part of the "We used to pay x, now we pay x+375" argument did you misunderstand when you read my post? I never said shit was for free, dummy.

Clandestine FoxJun 15, 20182 votes

You didn't make a valid comparison, you just claimed 'decent' (whatever that means) skins are more expensive now. All this means is that YOU PERSONALLY do not feel it's worth the value anymore because you're not as partial to these newer skin designs. If you said "Skins with new particles used to be 975 but now they're 1250," you'd be able to make a case. But you didn't. Whining is not an argument.

UWWWWWWWWWWWWWUJun 13, 20183 votes

any one else tired of people saying the game is dying? sure its not as good as it once was, however if you feel that its no fun, leave, no one is going to sit here to make you stay. if you enjoy the game, good keep on playing. and when this game comes to a close on that day, lets see who stuck around.

InvestaJun 14, 20182 votes

Disagree, I think the game is at it's best spot it's ever been. Balance will never truly be achieved, but as far as usability of champions goes you can use pretty much anyone and succeed, as opposed to S3 where only 20 champs were viable. The game is in a good state, and people will burnout on it because it's almost 10 years old. Some of those people will get salty and blame the game for their burnout when it's just them getting tired of it. The game is fine, but all good things must come to an end when you play it for so long.

Clandestine FoxJun 15, 20182 votes

bronzest thing I've read all day. ADCs as a role literally arent viable right now with the exception of literally 2 XD

micy123456789Jun 14, 20183 votes

If we bought an emote with gemstones do we still get the M’Pengu emote?

rebornhitman123Jun 15, 20183 votes

updating the emotes system is more important than improving the meta lol

BuickmasterJun 15, 20182 votes

Yeah cuz you want the people who spend their time working on the hud balancing the game. Lets get some lumberjacks to design skyscrapers and some fishermen to run nasa.

ççççççççççççççççJun 17, 20182 votes

riot makes money not balanced games

SSGODVEGETAJun 16, 20183 votes

give us back old aatrox! you made his swords generic, cut off his wings, made him into a chatterbox riven, he doesnt even use his wings like shyv, quinn, galio, hell you gave anivia an egg. but attrox just slides on the ground... even tho he had wings. that was my favorite part was his jump. you can keep his revival passive thats ok i guess but his jump and slow was awesome and his ult was too. you shouldnt have given him riven characteristics.

forrestoJun 14, 20182 votes

Anyone else feel like that sona emote looks like she just got molested? 0.0