“I remember the first time walking away from their headquarters with Wayne, and we were like, ‘those are our people.’” “We played League Of Legends together, went to their houses and talked about Dungeons and Dragons, and looked at their collections, and just really nerded out together, and found ourselves to be kindred spirits,” says Reynolds. With the conversation naturally going from ‘my brother plays that game’ to ‘isn’t your brother the singer for Imagine Dragons?’, the studio soon reached out to the band, and they ended up visiting the headquarters and becoming firm friends with co-creators Marc Merrill and Brandon Beck, as well as other key figures like head of franchise development Thomas Vu and creative director Christian Linke. It was shortly after this that one of Reynolds’ brothers met someone at church who also happened to work at League Of Legends studio Riot Games. “We’ve definitely been on stage late due to League Of Legends games,” Reynolds confesses with a laugh, probably not something most people would imagine when wondering why rockstar divas take so long to get on stage, though he adds, “I can’t get banned!”
Suffice to say, the game became a new obsession for them.
“You’re playing against other people but it’s also not like Call Of Duty where some 12-year-old with a sniper rifle is gonna dominate you every time – there’s meta thinking and macro strategy, the most mechanically gifted team isn’t always going to be one that wins, which is good as I’m 37 so my twitch muscles aren’t what they used to be.” “ League Of Legends definitely struck me as something that was very challenging,” says Sermon.
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