I am a little bit of a sucker for celebrities exhibiting their nerdy tendencies and it is not too long ago been delivered to my consideration that Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd—who chances are you’ll know as The Lord of the Rings’ Merry and Pippin—are big League of Legends gamers. A lot so, it appears they’re going to take any alternative to speak about it.
A clip from League of Legends podcast Rift Reaction popped up on YouTube, exhibiting Monaghan and Boyd chatting about their favorite champions to play. Boyd’s a jungler man, saying he not too long ago began enjoying Nunu which has been “probably the most enjoyable I’ve had within the sport since Heimerdinger.” Monaghan has a number of extra champs in his pool, itemizing off Teemo, Jinx, Arhi and Ziggs as his favourites. He stated he tends to choose champions that “annoy” different gamers and do higher at quietly chipping away at enemy well being bars.
“I feel the characters that I play and positively the characters that Billy performs communicate a bit bit to our character, to our precise character in actual life,” he advised podcast host Travis Gafford. “I have a tendency to choose champions that poke and annoy folks. Not massive bruisers.”
Because it seems, this is not the primary time they’ve gushed about Riot’s MOBA. The 2 began a podcast referred to as The Friendship Onion final 12 months, and the sport comes up in dialog a good few occasions throughout episodes. Episode three is a very particular one, the place they try to rope fellow LOTR co-star Elijah Wooden into enjoying a number of matches with them. “Elijah, by means of lockdown we have been enjoying this sport referred to as League of Legends,” Monaghan says. “It is a five-man crew and we solely have 4!”
The identical episode additionally reveals that the 2 had their “first-ever official struggle” whereas enjoying a sport of League, with Boyd claiming he “was not defending the tower nicely sufficient” for Monaghan’s liking.
You’ll be able to at all times inform when celebs are sincerely geeking out over a neat interest, and it is clear Boyd and Monaghan have been totally having fun with themselves over on the earth of Runeterra. I am 100% right here for extra celebrities sharing their favorite video games and nerdy actions—there are solely so many occasions the PC Gamer crew can swoon over Henry Cavill’s Warhammer obsession.
