  We study 4d exceptional S-fold SCFTs obtained from the 6d $(2,0)$ theories of
type $E_{6,7,8}$. We show that all but one of these theories are discrete
gaugings of free theories because they do not admit a consistent charge
lattice. We compute the 1-form symmetry of the only interacting theory, the
$k=4$ exceptional S-fold SCFT of type $E_8$, and find that it is trivial. Along
the way we develop a consistency condition for the Coulomb Branch
stratification of $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs with characteristic dimension
$\varkappa \neq \{1,2\}$ and show that the triviality of (most) exceptional
S-fold SCFTs follows directly from this constraint.
