Emotes

Emotes are short animations of each hero that players can perform in-game. They are cosmetics and were unlocked through opening loot boxes or by purchasing them with legacy credits in Overwatch 1. In Overwatch 2, Emotes can be earned through the battle pass, or purchased in the Hero Gallery using legacy credits or Overwatch coins, depending on the specific emote. 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 and a laugh emote. Most heroes have a dance emote given during the Overwatch Anniversary event, however this means most heroes exclusive to Overwatch 2 do not, such as Sojourn, Ramattra and Lifeweaver.

There are 356 non-default emotes in-game.

Hero Emotes

Sojourn

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Trvia

• There were 45 emotes that could 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 Archives loot boxes. (Pharah, Soldier: 76, and Hanzo)
  • With Overwatch Anniversary event every hero received a looping dance emote.