LoL esports team emotes and release date revealed for 2024

League of Legends (LoL) teams have revealed their own custom LoL esports team emotes designed for 2024.

Every pro team from the following regions has produced their own emote in conjunction with Riot’s LoL team:

• Korean LCK
• Chinese LPL
• European LEC
• North American LCS
• Vietnamese VCS
• Asia-Pacific PCS
• Brazilian CBLOL
• Latin American LLA

Each emote will be priced at 350RP (about £3). And Riot says that around 30% of the gross revenue will go directly to the team that helped design it, in a profit share deal.

These 75 new LoL esports team emotes will drop on August 27th in most regions and on August 28th in China.

These new emotes have replaced the usual team-branded icon and emote bundles from MSI and Worlds for more champion and meme-focused ones.

Alex ‘Riot Yuujou’ Quach, game producer at Riot Games, said: “The team worked really hard on these for months. One of the biggest changes we made in partnership with the esports team was the shift from the plain logo backplate emotes.

“Hope you all like it. Can’t wait to see how well they do when I come back from sabbatical.”

Some of the 2024 LoL esports team emotes and their meanings

In terms of the LEC’s two UK-headquartered esports organisations’ emotes, GiantX has revealed the following emote, saying: “Time to invest in our GX stonks.”

And London-headquartered Fnatic showed off their emote of a poro wearing a Fnatic cap here:

Here’s the full collection of LEC emotes, including those from G2, Vitality, Heretics, Karmine Corp, Mad Lions Koi, SK, BDS and Rogue.

In North America, one highlight is Cloud9 opting for a clown-9 Jinx emote:

The 100 Thieves and BDS emotes were changed, to disappointment from the community on Twitter and Reddit:

Fans in general reacted positively to the LoL esports team emotes, with several posts on social media like the following:

There’s also a good thread here that covers the Chinese LPL team emotes for 2024:

There are tier lists being made too:

The news comes a few months after Riot proposed a new business model to pro League of Legends teams, with teams being paid a fixed stipend and share in revenue from LoL esports digital content sales.

You can see the full collection of custom LoL esports team emotes for 2024 on the lolesports.com website here.

Dom Sacco

Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.

As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.