Charlotte Counters 2026: Best Counter Picks & Builds

Charlotte is a Dark Slayer lane fighter whose playstyle revolves around landing skills: her passive Splash Gradation makes each skill that hits empower the next one and grants 1 mark, and at 3 marks her next basic attack is empowered. Skill 1 Tri-Slash fires a Tri-Slash and boosts her speed, skill 2 Splash Fount dashes in a chosen direction, dealing multiple hits of physical damage and healing her, and her ultimate Power Gradation draws sword images that slow targets while granting Charlotte CC immunity and damage immunity. Her weaknesses: her power depends entirely on landing skills, her only CC is a slow, her healing is all packed into skill 2, and once her ultimate’s protection wears off she is very easy to catch. Dodging skills, anti-heal and well-timed CC are what you need. Charlotte’s counters include Florentino, Qi, Zanis in the Dark Slayer lane and jungle, Aleister in the mid lane and Thane at support.

• Florentino
• Qi
• Zanis

Florentino

Charlotte needs to land skills consistently so her passive Splash Gradation empowers the next one, and Florentino is one of the best skill-dodgers in the Dark Slayer lane: the Sword Step after each Lunge from Shuffle is a CC-immune dash, enough to dodge the Tri-Slash from Tri-Slash . Wait for Charlotte to use Power Gradation before unleashing Gentlemen's Duel : Duel makes Florentino immune to all CC for 5 seconds and reduces her armor. The three strikes of Triple Threat deal bonus true damage based on max HP, wearing her down faster than she can heal with Splash Fount .

Qi

Qi plays at the same rhythm as Charlotte: landing a skill makes her passive Guardian Qi empower her next 2 basic attacks, boosting attack speed, dealing bonus damage and healing her. The difference is that Qi has hard CC, while Charlotte doesn’t. Star-Chasing Palm dashes in and knocks up, Vast Palm knocks back, and if Charlotte is pushed into a wall she is also stunned, breaking her Splash Gradation mark-stacking chain before she can activate Power Gradation for CC immunity. Each hit of Heaven-Shaking Palm shreds armor, letting Qi burst her down quickly while Charlotte is still waiting on the cooldown of Splash Fount .

Zanis

The slow from Power Gradation is the only CC in Charlotte’s kit, and it barely holds down Zanis since his passive Dragoon makes every skill of his cleanse CC (except suppression). The golden moment to strike is right as Power Gradation’s CC and damage immunity ends: Dragon Wraith deals true damage, stuns and slows, and all bonus damage dealt during the empowerment is true damage. The stun also stops Charlotte from using Splash Fount to dash away and heal. Tail Sweep grants attack speed and lifesteal so Zanis can win extended fights.

• Aleister

Aleister

Charlotte dives the backline with Splash Fount and is only truly safe while Power Gradation is active. Aleister should hold skills until Power Gradation’s CC immunity wears off, then raise Magic Barrier to stun and apply the Wicked Plot mark, followed by Magic Prison to trap her in a magic prison for 2.5 seconds. Locked down like that, Charlotte can’t cast skills to build marks for Splash Gradation , so her empowered basic attack never comes. A third skill hitting the same target also detonates Wicked Plot for true damage.

• Thane

Thane

Thane has two knock-ups to break Charlotte’s rhythm: Valiant Charge charges forward, continuously pushing victims back and knocking them up when the skill ends, while Avalon's Fury plants the divine sword into the ground, knocking up and slowing everything in the area. Charlotte needs skills to land to build marks for Splash Gradation , but she can’t cast while airborne. Once she has used Splash Fount to heal and the protection of Power Gradation has faded, Excalibur deals true damage plus 15% of missing HP as physical damage, while Thane gains 20% damage reduction and becomes unstoppable.