Players in Teamfight Tactics thought they had cracked the Set 11 Inkborn Fables code using swap scripts. But when the gameplay was shown off on Twitter/X, game design director Stephen “Mortdog” Mortimer was less than impressed.
Mortdog accidentally leaks his TFT hacks
Skills are important in TFT, just like Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon, and other card games. There is always RNG involved, but the best players in the world know how to adapt and play flexibly, earning the highest possible lobby placement in hundreds and even thousands of games. A Twitter user posted gameplay footage of another player cheating on June 9th, in which the Tactician used a swap script to reposition himself before the next player combat round began.
Frodan discovered the post and shared it on his Twitter timeline, which made it onto Mortdog's stream ahead of the 14.12 Patch Rundown notes. The game director immediately shut down the option to use swap scripts, calling it "a quick way to get an account banned" and saying the scripts are "easy to detect."
Swap scripts are clearly against Riot’s rules, whether they’re used in an organized competitive event or to casually play the upcoming Pengu’s Party mode. No player is actually moving champions in the manner shown in the Twitter video, and even if they physically could, it’s a waste of time when one misclick can cost you a game or a top-four finish.
