LoL esports team emotes and release date revealed for 2024
Dom Sacco, Senior Editor
Last Updated: 19/05/2025
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.”
Time to invest in our GX STONKS 📈
— GIANTX League of Legends (@GIANTXLeague) August 13, 2024
Our new emote will be launching in client on the 27th August 🗓️
No more 📉 LP. Time to lauch your elo to the moon. #WeAreGIANTX pic.twitter.com/EsuhteN1Wj
And London-headquartered Fnatic showed off their emote of a poro wearing a Fnatic cap here:
Thank you, next! ❤️
— FNATIC (@FNATIC) August 13, 2024
Our newest @lolesports emote drops in the League client on the 27th August! pic.twitter.com/ybVSFMWlIr
Here’s the full collection of LEC emotes, including those from G2, Vitality, Heretics, Karmine Corp, Mad Lions Koi, SK, BDS and Rogue.
looks like you need to update your emote wheel soon https://t.co/lfGIczHpci pic.twitter.com/wGIFpSn3Af
— LEC (@LEC) August 13, 2024
In North America, one highlight is Cloud9 opting for a clown-9 Jinx emote:
The return of Clown9 🤡 pic.twitter.com/UEgXKfXTdo
— Cloud9 Kia (@C9LoL) August 13, 2024
The 100 Thieves and BDS emotes were changed, to disappointment from the community on Twitter and Reddit:
Another Emote Nerf….. this time BDS
— SkinSpotlights (@SkinSpotlights) August 19, 2024
1st is the updated, 2nd is the old pic.twitter.com/4dg5MfDn9k
Fans in general reacted positively to the LoL esports team emotes, with several posts on social media like the following:
SJDJAKBDKABDKQNSKQKWJ 😭
— (¯⊛_ゝ⊗) (@DIEBYNUMBERS) August 13, 2024
HES DOING THE
☝️🤓 pic.twitter.com/YBVtYKTwxt
There’s also a good thread here that covers the Chinese LPL team emotes for 2024:
Let's go through Global Emotes for LPL teams! 🧵
— Yuuu (@tttttyuc) August 13, 2024
1- AL – has their mascot a little panda holding an umbrella for Tristana in the rain
2- BLG – has their mascot Bululu and their slogan is "cheer" for faith
3 – EDG – their team dog ‘Nice'
4 – FPX – Phoneix raising from fire pic.twitter.com/s5cDsJ9j7u
There are tier lists being made too:
I MADE ALL REGIONS EMOTE TIER LIST
— Express (@ExpressLOL_) August 14, 2024
TELL ME IF YOU AGREE #LPL TEAMS HAD BEST EMOTES OVERALL, BECAUSE MOST OF THEM USED TEAM MASCOTS
BUT #LEC ONES ARE 3 BEST ONES ANYWAY, WP HERETICS, KCORP, BDS pic.twitter.com/08UeygngLh
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.
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Dom Sacco, Senior Editor
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He has almost two decades of experience in journalism, and left Esports News UK in June 2025. 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 also previously worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation.
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