Emotes

Emotes are short animations of each hero that players can perform in-game. They are cosmetics and are unlocked through opening loot boxes or by purchasing them with credits. Emotes can be viewed and equipped from the Hero Gallery. To use an emote in-game, choose the emote option on the communication wheel.

Each hero can be equipped with up to 4 different emotes at a time, and each character has 1 "Heroic" emote available by default. Additionally, all heroes have a sit emote, a laugh emote, and a dance emote from the Overwatch Anniversary event.

There are 157 non-default emotes in-game.

There are 45 emotes that can only be unlocked from seasonal loot boxes:
 * 4 from Summer Games loot boxes. (Bastion, Lucio, Symmetra, and Ana)
 * 5 from Halloween loot boxes. (Ana, Winston, Reinhardt, Torbjörn, and Mei)
 * 4 from Winter loot boxes. (McCree, Mei, Zarya, and Orisa)
 * 5 from Lunar New Year loot boxes. (D.Va, Junkrat, Mei, Roadhog, and Doomfist)
 * 3 from Overwatch Uprising loot boxes. (Pharah, Soldier: 76, and Hanzo)
 * With Overwatch Anniversary event every hero received a looping dance emote.