Top 10 Best Twitch Emotes

Twitch Emotes For Your Stream in 2025

What Are Twitch Emotes?

Twitch emotes are a staple on the streaming platform, with millions being used every day by streamers and viewers alike. The popularity of Twitch emotes fluctuates over time, but there are some that transcend infamy and are recognizable across any platform.

The main use for Twitch emotes is to convey emotion or feeling without words. In the literal sense, they are emotional pictures. Sometimes it is easier than words, you know?

Emotes are also a large part of Twitch's ecosystem, as they create income for streamers. Whilst many of Twitch's basic emotes are free, streamers have the option to add emotes to their channel for their subscribers. As these are limited to subscribers, viewers must financially commit to a sub tier of streamer to unlock them.

The Twitch emotes featured below are a combination of popularity over time, current popularity and their impact on Twitch culture.

We have chosen the top 10 most popular Twitch emotes and offered alternatives that you can add to your channel. They represent the same emotion, but will be unique to your subscribers, creating an incentive to support your stream!

1. LUL, OMEGA LUL EMOTE - Laughter

Hexrift Twitch Emotes. 8 unique designs showcasing expressive characters and themes.

Horror Twitch Emotes. Eight unique designs including a ghost, zombie, and skeleton. Fun and spooky.

Dark Guardian Twitch emotes. 8 unique character designs with vibrant colors and details.

LUL (or similar emotes such as OMEGALUL) has remained in the top used Twitch emotes for years.

Showing a reaction to something funny, emotion based laughter, or used to show you are joking - we've provided some alternative designs for this ever popular emote,

Hexrift - Featuring inspired League of Legends emotes. The LUL found in this pack is based on LeBlanc's character model.

Horror - Scary and spooky can still mean funny! See our laughing Frankenstein emote.

Dark Guardian - For fans of Destiny 2, these Hive inspired emotes have Oryx finding something hilarious (likely watching people fall off the jumping puzzle).

2. POGCHAMP, POGGERS, GACHIGASM EMOTE - Hype

Guardian Twitch Emotes. 8 unique designs featuring animated characters and expressions.

Hyperchrome Twitch emotes. Colorful designs include hearts, hype, and retro characters.

Mech Attack Twitch Emotes. 8 unique robot designs in yellow and red. Fun and engaging styles.

Pogchamp can be controversial but has other forms such as Poggers that are just as popular.

Usually used as a "hype" or "amazing" reflection to show either a "well done" or that you are excited.

Guardian - These inspired Destiny 2 emotes have Saint-14 getting hyped, and one of the Hive thralls expressing their own POG.

Hyperchrome - The most hyper colors, in hyper neon, with hype glasses.

Mech Attack - Robotic and mech themed, celebrate and hype up (with visor /off).

3. FEELSBADMAN, SADGE, PRESS F EMOTE - Sadness

Ragnar Twitch emotes. Eight unique designs featuring characters and creatures from Destiny 2.

Orbital Twitch emotes featuring unique astronaut designs. Playful and colorful character illustrations.

Nano Black Twitch emotes. Eight unique designs featuring robotic characters in black and white.

Every now and again, an L is taken or mistakes are made and what better way to show that than with sadness emotes! Let's get Fs in chat.

Ragnar - Even the toughest Vikings have bad days. These Norse and God of War inspired emotes have a couple included that make perfect sense as "sad".

Orbital - You can still be sad in space. Our little astronaut showcases annoyed - angry- and surprised- FeelsBadMan.

Nano Black - And robots also have feelings (and realistic shaped hearts). These monochrome emotes feature both cry and sad in their pack.

4. MONKAS, HAHAA, KEKWAIT EMOTE - Nervous

Colorful Crystal Twitch emotes. Eight unique designs featuring playful characters and expressions.

Neon Twitch emotes with 8 unique designs. Colorful cartoon style, expressing various emotions.

Christmas Twitch emotes featuring festive characters: Grinch, elf, polar bear, reindeer, penguin, Santa, snowman.

Sweating is a part of gaming, whether it's because you're last man standing, you've really messed up your shots, or you're about to make the play of a lifetime - MonkaS and other emotes represent the awkwardness and trepidation!

Crystal - Inspired Final Fantasy emotes! Our Paissa friend here is the perfect blend of awkward and terrified.

Neon - Little Lo-Fi is nervous, nervous and cute, and nervous with coffee.

Christmas - Festive and anxious penguin shows the softer side of a MonkaS type emote.

5. KAPPA, EZ, PEPELAUGH EMOTE - Joking

Stellar Ultimate Stream Overlays Bundle. 8 cartoon emotes including various characters.

Neo Pixel Twitch Emotes featuring 8 unique designs with vibrant colors and animated characters.

Possibly the most recognizable Twitch emote is Kappa. To signify joking, slight sarcasm, and holding in a laugh trying to escape - this emote covers a huge range of emotions in a subtle way.

Stellar - So many of these emotes can represent the humor and sarcasm found in the original Kappa emote, all in an outer space style.

Halloween - Adorably spooky for Halloween and horror gameplay, our little cat character and skeleton show subtle humor and a little drama (with popcorn).

Neo Pixel - Perfect for pixel art and cyberpunk fans! We've got a selection of sarcasm and eyebrow raising emotes for you to use.

6. KEKW EMOTE, PEEPOCLOWN, LULWW - Funny

Galleon Twitch Emotes. 8 unique designs featuring pirate characters and sea creatures.

Shogun Twitch Emotes. 8 unique and colorful designs featuring expressive characters.

Dark Realm Twitch emotes. Eight unique designs featuring characters and creatures.

And KEKW is for when you just can't hold in the humor! For times when content is truly funny, it's the LMAO of most used Twitch emotes.

Galleon - For pirate fans and Sea of Thieves players! Parrots laughing and octopus grinning are perfect for those who want to showcase hilarious emotions based on the sea and ships.

Shogun - Our samurai themed stream overlays package also has its own emotes that have a range of emotions including laughter.

Dark Realm - Dark fantasy emotes inspired by Dark Souls and fantasy games, where knights, dragons and squires are a great replacement for Kappa.

7. PEPEHANDS, PEEPORAIN, SADGECRY EMOTE - Crying

TRN Twitch Emotes featuring 8 unique animated designs. Fun characters in a circular layout.

Warfare Twitch Emotes featuring 8 unique designs with gaming characters and expressions.

Reactor Twitch emotes featuring 8 unique designs of stylized armored characters.

Pepehands and Sadgecry are two of the most used emotes for crying - for when sadness is just not enough. We've created a huge selection to replace these top Twitch emotes, and included just some of them in those featured below.

TRN - For when you lose the race - our TRN rider is ready for you!

Warfare - Inspired Call of Duty emotes featuring a soldier that might be crying, but also might be angry.

Reactor - Inspired by Iron Man and Marvel, even Tony Stark can cry with his helmet on.

8. NOPERS, NOOO, SWIFTRAGE EMOTE - Anger

Arcade Twitch emotes. Pixel art style featuring unique characters and symbols. Fun and colorful designs.

Street Twitch Emotes. 8 unique designs for stream engagement. Colorful and playful illustrations.

Striker Twitch Emotes. Eight unique animated designs featuring excited and expressive characters.

One of the top Twitch emotes communicates rage. As much as streamers and viewers would like to think that rage can be contained, sometimes you just need something to represent it!

Arcade - Made in a retro style and pixel art theme, our primate friend in the middle is definitely enraged by something.

Street - Modern art and graffiti style, featuring angry bears and flaming eyes.

Striker - Nothing says nopers more than a red card, or maybe a wall headbutt. Inspired FIFA emotes.

9. HMMM , HUH, WAITWHAT EMOTE - Confused

Neomoon Twitch Emotes. 8 colorful and unique designs for engaging viewer interaction.

Monochrome Twitch emotes. Eight unique designs featuring playful characters. Colorful and eye-catching.

This is probably the category with the most famous Twitch emotes that have come from memes, or visa versa. Showing confusion or misunderstanding using emotes such as HMMM, HUH or WaitWhat??

Neomoon - Created with Neomuna in mind, these inspired Destiny 2 emotes feature a very confused Osiris.

Neon - Our adorable Lo-Fi emotes are for cozy gaming!

Monochrome - Black and white emotes with an alien theme.

10. <3 EMOTE - Love

Cyberpunk Twitch emotes. 8 unique designs with vibrant colors and playful expressions.

Minecraft-inspired Twitch emotes. Eight unique designs featuring characters and icons.

Mafia Twitch Emotes. 8 unique designs featuring expressive characters and humorous themes.

We all love the Twitch heart emote! It shows exactly what you want it to mean and it comes free with Twitch. But if you want to spice up your stream a little more with something that says "LOVE", and is also an incentive for your subs to support you - we have a selection of heart emotes for you.

Cyberpunk - Futurist emotes with a cyberpunk theme include a myriad of emote styles, including holding a giant pink heart!

Streamcraft - Inspired Minecraft emotes! In a pixel style, much associated with Minecraft themes.

Mafia - Get ahead of the next release with inspired GTA emotes!

Static & Animated Twitch Emotes

All original designs and hand painted - see our Twitch emote packs!

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TLDR;

Popular Twitch emotes will always come with the platform, but for a slight investment you can have your own unique emotes for your channel! Not only will they work on Twitch, but are compatible on all major platforms.

Twitch emotes act as a way to communicate emotions, but are also an engagement tool for your channel. Unlockable via subscriptions, emotes are an incentive to also support your stream - as well as free advertisement for your channel when they are used by your subs across Twitch.

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