Elon Musk thinks his AI can beat Faker in League of Legends

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 25/11/2025

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has outrageously claimed that his Grok AI could beat the best ‘human’ League of Legends team.

This would have to be recent LoL Worlds 2025 winners Lee ‘Faker’ Sang-hyeok and T1.

Though anyone who has watched T1’s six-time World Champion Faker will have questioned whether he is truly a human.

Musk believes Grok 5 AI could defeat LoL’s best players, even with restraints, in a post which has over 10 million views on X (Twitter).

The restraints Musk would put on his AI would be that it could only learn by looking at a monitor with a camera (not accessing the game’s code).

Additionally, it would be restricted to having reactions and click rates that are not faster than humanly possible.

Musk claims: “Grok 5 is designed to be able to play any game just by reading the instructions and experimenting.”

And he believes that will be enough for the AI to defeat the best LoL players in the world as early as next year.

Faker and T1 won the LoL World Championship for the third consecutive year earlier this month and would be very worthy opponents.

Faker now has six LoL Worlds titles to his name, and T1 are also keeping hold of two three-time World Champions.

However, T1 will be potentially weaker in 2026 now that Lee ‘Gumayusi’ Min-hyung has left for LCK rivals Hanwha Life Esports.

While most would expect T1 to win in this absurd test, an AI has successfully taken down top esports teams before.

Back in 2018, OpenAI won two consecutive matches of Dota 2 against a team of pro players.

However, the AI read from the game’s application programming interface (API), gaining direct information instantaneously.

Elon Musk’s shady gaming persona

Elon Musk claims to be a hardcore and very talented gamer, but has been caught in numerous facades by the gaming community.

This began earlier this year when Musk livestreamed himself playing the very skill and time-intensive Path of Exile 2.

While having one of the highest levels of any player in the game, seasoned players quickly realised Musk didn’t even understand the game’s fundamentals.

It became increasingly apparent that Musk had paid somebody else to level his account to level 95, in a game where one death ends your character.

Similarly, Musk posted a leaderboard showing that his Diablo 4 account was in the top 20 worldwide.

Such an achievement would again require extreme time commitment, at least 10 hours a day according to seasoned players.

This would have been extremely difficult for the multi-business entrepreneur to commit to, especially with the political campaigning he was doing at the time.

However, Musk has since admitted that he had paid to have the account boosted.

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

In my seven years of esports writing, I've introduced esports coverage to newspapers, interviewed some of the biggest names in the industry, and driven viewers mad with the puns in my YouTube scripts. I'm most proud of the latter.

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