Emotes

Emotes

Emotes are expressive actions that the player can have their Scout perform. These can be performed by opening the emote wheel by holding then moving the mouse to the chosen emote. Most emotes last around 2.5 seconds before returning to the Scout's default stance. The play dead emote lasts longer at roughly 4 seconds long.

List of Emotes

In order of appearance in the emote wheel, clockwise starting from the top center.

Page 1

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  Salute
• 

  Thumbs up
• 

  Think
• 

  No-no
• 

  Play dead
• 

  Shrug
• 

  Crossed arms
• 

  Dance

Page 2

• 

  Wave
• 

  Cinema
• 

  Shimmy
• 

  Flex
• 

  Backflip
• 

  Crashout
• 

  It's so over
• 

  Bully

Trivia

• Using an emote does not restrict a Scout's ability to point or extend a helping hand. These actions can thus be combined to create more unique poses.
  • The only exception to this is the Play dead emote, during which any motion of the hands is not displayed to other Scouts.
• While unconscious (also while being carried), all emotes play for a very short period of time before the Scout transitions to the expected pose.
• The Backflip emote has a 50% chance to ragdoll the Scout instead of landing the flip.
• The Backflip emote is disabled if the Scout opens the emote wheel while they are not grounded. If the Scout opened the emote wheel while they grounded, they can perform a backflip midair if something, such as the wind in the Roots, causes them to fall while the emote wheel remains open.

Patch history

1.0 (2025-06-16): Introduced.
1.40.a (2025-11-05): Added 8 new Emotes.
1.44.a (2025-11-13): The Emote wheel can no longer be accessed as a ghost.