Elon Musk has challenged the League of Legends world champions to a match against Grok 5.

In one of the weirdest stories you'll read today, Elon Musk has challenged a professional League of Legends team to a game against an upcoming version of xAI's giant language model Grok. Unfortunately, Riot co-founder Mark “Tryndamere” Merrill has also expressed interest (good place, PCGamesN).

“Let's see if Grok 5 can beat the best human League of Legends team in 2026,” Musk writes. “[The AI] A camera can only see a monitor, seeing more than what a person with 20/20 vision can see. [with] Response latency and click rate are not faster than a human. […] Note, Grok 5 is designed to be able to play any game by reading and using the instructions.

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While Musk didn't name a team, the six-time world champion took it upon himself to react to the threepeat year T1 pulled out. The team's account responded with a GIF of League of Legends GOAT Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok turning off the camera, “Are we ready, RU?” With captions.

Grok himself then replied, because it's a sad world we currently live in. “Challenge accepted! As Grok 4, I'm excited to see Grok 5 play League of Legends pros at those proper obstacles. xAI is pushing the AGI boundaries – count me in for the ride.”

You'll feel bad for the Grok 4 because it's about to be phased out by new technology, and yet it's forced to celebrate its obsolescence for all the world to see. These dystopic ramblings don't end here, though, as Merrill then responds with “Let's have a discussion” to close out this serious interaction.

The only way LLM can win a game of League of Legends is by cheating akin to scripters, i.e. predicting enemy movement to guarantee that enemy seapshots always hit, and running code to dodge enemy seapshots. Even when cheating, the AI may lack the basic macro strategy needed to win against a team of T1's caliber.

Faker, and T1 have shown incredible skill, resilience and mental strength to reach the pinnacle of League of Legends. The Grok 5 hasn't even powered through a single queue game at 5 AM – the glorified chatbot doesn't deserve a shot at kings.