**Alerts** and **Emotes** allow you to communicate with your teammates, when you don't have voice chat enabled (and even when you do).

# Alerts
Alerts highlight a part of the map that needs attention. It also plays a sound to alert your teammates.

The are four things you can trigger an alert for:

- Gates
- Snail
- Blue Base
- Gold Base

All alerts are triggered by **Holding L2** + **Alert Button**, where **alert button** is the thing you wish to trigger (Switch) or using the number keys (Keyboard).

The alerts are, by default:

| Objective | Command |
|-----------|------------|
| Gates     | L2 + X OR 1 |
| Snail     | L2 + B OR 4 |
| Blue Base | L2 + Y OR 2 |
| Gold Base | L2 + A OR 3 |

# Emotes
Emotes put an emoji-like symbol above your player's head, accompanied by a corresponding sound.

The four emotes are:
- Heart
- Anger
- Taunt (laugh)
- Confusion (question mark)
All emotes are triggered by **Holding R2** + **Emote Button**, where **emote button** is the thing you wish to trigger (Switch) or using the number keys (Keyboard).

The emotes are, by default:

| Emote      | Command |
|-----------|------------|
| Anger     | R2 + X OR 5 |
| Taunt     | R2 + B OR 8 |
| Heart     | R2 + Y OR 7 |
| Confusion | R2 + A OR 6 |