Lunar New Year 2019: skins, highlight intros, and emotes

Lunar New Year 2019: skins, highlight intros, and emotes

The Lunar New Year 2019 event - Year of the Pig - is finally live! Have a look at all the skins, highlight intros, and emotes available for the next weeks.

The Year of the Pig event introduces six new legendary skins, two epic ones, and hundreds of new cosmetics. All the items released during the previous years are also available at a discounted credit price.

The competitive Capture the Flag mode is back. This second season will feature all the previous maps - Ayutthaya and festive Lijiang Tower - and a new festive CTF version of the Busan map.

The event will take place from January 24th to February 18th.

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Lunar New Year 2019

Skins

 
 

Highlight Intros

Drumming

Emotes

Rattle Drum

Yut Nori

Lunar New Year 2019 Trailer

Lunar New Year 2018

The Year of the Dog event will run until March 5. Blizzard decided to extend the event for an entire month to give everyone the chance to enjoy it and the new competitive CTF map.

This year’s event added six new legendary skins for Widowmaker, Pharah, Genji, McCree, Mercy, and Zarya, for a total of 19 themed cosmetics. There are also 4 highlight intros, 5 emotes, victory poses, and plenty more content.

To learn more about the event, and particularly on the new Sudden-Death mechanic for Capture the Flag maps, check out our summary of the latest developer update.

The pictures below showcase also the skins of the past year.

Skins

 

Highlight Intros

Spark

 

Fortune

Lion Dancer

Feast

 

Emotes

Secret Friend

 

Crushing

Bow

So excited

Dud?

 
 

Lunar New Year 2018 Trailer

Lunar New Year 2017 Trailer

Header image and all images/gifs in the article: Blizzard

Vincenzo is an esports writer with ten years of experience. Former head editor for Natus Vincere, he has produced content for DreamHack, FACEIT, DOTAFire, 2P, and more. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.