Lord of the Rings' Merry and Pippin can't stop speaking about League of Legends

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i am slightly of a sucker for celebrities showing their nerdy inclinations and or not it's currently been brought to my attention that Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd—who you may comprehend because the Lord of the Rings' Merry and Pippin—are huge League of Legends players. So tons so, it appears they'll take any opportunity to discuss it.

A clip from League of Legends podcast Rift reaction popped up on YouTube, showing Monaghan and Boyd chatting about their frequent champions to play. Boyd's a jungler man, announcing he currently started enjoying Nunu which has been "essentially the most fun I've had within the game since Heimerdinger." Monaghan has a few extra champs in his pool, checklist off Teemo, Jinx, Arhi and Ziggs as his favourites. He said he has a tendency to pick champions that "annoy" different gamers and do enhanced at quietly chipping away at enemy fitness bars.

"I feel the characters that I play and definitely the characters that Billy performs speak a bit bit to our personality, to our specific personality in actual life," he advised podcast host Travis Gafford. "I are inclined to decide on champions that poke and annoy individuals. no longer huge bruisers."

because it turns out, this is rarely the primary time they've gushed about rise up's MOBA. both began a podcast referred to as The Friendship Onion last 12 months, and the online game comes up in dialog a fair few times throughout episodes. Episode three is a very particular one, where they are trying and cord fellow LOTR co-celebrity Elijah timber into enjoying just a few matches with them. "Elijah, you understand via lockdown we've got been enjoying this online game known as League of Legends," Monaghan says. "it be a five-man crew and we best have four!"

The same episode also displays that the two had their "first-ever reputable fight" while enjoying a online game of League, with Boyd claiming he "was now not defending the tower neatly satisfactory" for Monaghan's liking.

that you may always tell when celebs are clearly geeking out over a neat hobby, and it's clear Boyd and Monaghan had been totally enjoying themselves over on the planet of Runeterra. i'm one hundred% right here for more celebrities sharing their standard games and nerdy activities—there are most effective so again and again the workstation Gamer crew can swoon over Henry Cavill's Warhammer obsession.