Cosmetics Guide
Jujutsu Shenanigans Emotes
Emotes in Jujutsu Shenanigans are cosmetic taunts and dances your character performs until the animation ends. There are over 350 emotes across seven categories, bought in the in-game Shop. You can cancel any emote early by jumping, attacking, blocking, or getting hit.
What Are Emotes?
An emote plays a character animation — often with sound and visual effects — that lasts until the emote ends. They are purely cosmetic: they do not give stats or damage, which is exactly why they are used for taunts, dances and general shenanigans in lobbies.
Every emote can be cancelled early. Jumping, attacking (M1), blocking, or getting hit stops the animation immediately. That cancel rule matters more than it looks: an emote you cannot cancel would be a free kill, so the game always gives you an out.
Emotes are also a core part of the game’s identity, not a side feature: the developer ships them in batches with names that reference memes, community events and the game itself, and the most famous ones show up in clips across TikTok and YouTube. Because they are cosmetic, they are the safest form of flexing — no stats, but plenty of style.
The 7 Emote Categories
Emotes fall into seven categories, each with a different mechanical behavior:
- Stationary — keeps you in a fixed spot or slows your movement drastically while performed.
- Cosmetic — applies an effect that lasts after the emote ends; removed on death, sometimes when re-used.
- Traversal — allows or forces movement at a set speed while performing.
- Partner — lets other players join via an interaction prompt; duo emotes accept one partner, group emotes accept unlimited players.
- Kill — interacts with dead players, and can cause a kill in certain cases.
- Interactive — comes with an action button, a typing space, or special controls.
- Limited / Exclusive — time-limited or exclusive emotes that may not return to the shop.
The partner category is the social core of the game: duo emotes (one player) and group emotes (unlimited) are what lobby players use to sync dances, and they are also the emotes most often shown in community clips.
How Many Emotes Are There?
The emote roster is large and still growing. As of the V1.81 update (August 2026), there are roughly 350+ emotes in the game, with new batches added alongside major patches. V1.81 alone added 31 new emotes.
Any list goes stale quickly. When a new patch drops, expect a batch of emotes added alongside it. Check the update notes or the Fandom wiki for the latest names — the full emote catalog changes with every update.
Rare and Limited Emotes
The Limited/Exclusive category is where collection pressure lives. These emotes appear for a limited window and may never return, which makes them status symbols in lobbies. Recent batches also include developer-joke emotes — one update added an emote literally named “How tze was moving” — and community-recognized meme emotes like Brainrot and Homelander. If a limited emote appears in your shop, treat it as now-or-never.
Emote Etiquette in the Community
Emote culture is surprisingly codified. Group emotes are used to sync dances in lobbies; kill emotes are the traditional disrespect move after winning a fight; and a taunt followed by a clean block-cancel is considered a flex rather than a mistake. Reddit’s “top 8 emotes of all time” threads (70+ comments) show that players treat their emote loadout as part of their identity.
Traversal emotes add one more layer: they move you at a fixed speed, and some players use them as a juke — the opponent reads an emote, expects a stationary target, and you glide away instead. It is a gimmick rather than a strategy, but it wins rounds in casual servers.
How to Get Emotes
Emotes are bought in the in-game Shop — the same menu that handles codes and
gamepasses. Some emotes are tied to gamepasses rather than a direct shop
purchase, and a few arrive as code rewards: the currently active code
A7D2L26RNEPG74A3Q grants the Woven Insight emote for free.
Limited and exclusive emotes sit outside the regular shop rotation, so if one appears in the shop while it is available, grab it early — there is no guarantee it returns.
Prices are not officially published, and the Shop’s emote list changes with each patch, so browse the Shop directly for current costs. Gamepass emotes are the exception: they are bundled with a gamepass purchase rather than priced as standalone emotes.
How to Equip and Use Emotes
To equip emotes, open your inventory (bag icon on the upper left side of the screen), then click one of the slots on the right side and select the emote you want to equip. To perform an emote in-game, use the assigned slot input.
A practical tip from the cancel mechanic: you can use a taunt safely only when the opponent is ragdolled or far away. Even then, keep your finger on the block input — a well-timed emote cancel into block is a valid (if disrespectful) bait.
Performing an emote mid-fight is a risk/reward call: it reads as disrespect, and an alert opponent will punish it the moment you are vulnerable — which is exactly why the cancel-into-block trick matters.
Emotes in Combat and Community
Emotes are more than cosmetics in this game — they are part of the meta-culture. Reddit runs “top emotes of all time” threads with 70+ comments, kill emotes interact with downed players, and the developer even ships self-referential emotes (the “How tze was moving” emote is a developer joke). Knowing which emotes are rare is also a status signal in lobbies — the emote you wear says as much about your playtime as your rank.
Kill emotes deserve special mention: they interact with downed players, and in certain cases can finish them off — the only emotes with a mechanical combat effect. Everything else is purely visual. And if an update feels light on content, check the emote list first: the developer consistently ships meme emotes with every major patch.