Florentino Counters 2026: Best Counter Picks & Builds

Florentino is an extremely mobile fighter in the Dark Slayer lane and the jungle, but all of his flashy plays revolve around flowers. Skill 1 Blossom throws a flower that stuns, and on hitting an enemy it drops three flowers for 5 seconds; picking up a flower restores 100 energy, triggers a dash strike and refreshes skill 2 Triple Threat , a three-hit slash that deals true damage based on max HP. His passive Shuffle makes dash strikes heal when they hit heroes and grants a short CC-immune sword step, while his ultimate Gentlemen's Duel duels one hero for 5 seconds, making him immune to all crowd control and to damage from other enemies. The weakness of Florentino is that if he misses his flower or is blocked from picking it up, he loses his rhythm, and his range is short. Opponents who poke from range, have untargetable skills or know to save their crowd control for when the duel ends will give him a hard time. Florentino’s counters include Marja, Bolt Baron, Murad in the Dark Slayer lane and jungle, Aleister in the mid lane, and Arum, Baldum in the support role.

• Marja
• Bolt Baron
• Murad

Marja

Florentino has to land Blossom to get flowers to pick up, then uses Triple Threat and his dash strikes to bully opponents. Marja breaks that rhythm with Vile Spirit : Marja becomes untargetable, cleanses all debuffs such as the stun from Blossom and gains movement speed, so she can run away from where the flowers dropped before he can pick them up. When he dives in with a dash strike, Soul-Devouring Worm attaches a tether that slows him, drains his physical attack and heals Marja, making Florentino’s physical hits noticeably weaker. The second cast of Wave of Agony dashes a long distance, letting Marja create space when he activates Gentlemen's Duel . Save Vile Spirit for when he throws his flower instead of using it to start fights.

Bolt Baron

Bolt Baron ‘s basic attacks deal magic damage from beyond Florentino’s reach, and he has plenty of ways to dodge flowers. Thunder Plunge dashes forward with a 2-second shield, helping avoid the path of Blossom or leave the spot where flowers dropped. Thunder Blast knocks enemies back, and the closer they are, the farther they are pushed, so when Florentino has just closed in with a dash strike, a well-timed lightning bolt pushes him out of the slash range of Triple Threat . His ultimate Gathering Thunder grants 1.5 seconds of crowd control immunity and 30% movement speed, and every lightning strike adds another shield, letting Bolt Baron absorb the burst and strike back during the 8-second transformation. The empowered attack from his passive Thunder Conductor also heals, helping him hold the lane longer.

Murad

Murad plays a hit-and-run style, exactly what the short-ranged Florentino hates most. Thorn of Time dashes forward to deal damage and stun, can be cast 3 times, and the third cast returns Murad to his starting point, so you can chip him down and pull back before he can answer with Blossom . The stun also keeps Florentino in place just as he is about to run for his flowers. When he pulls you into a duel with Gentlemen's Duel , activate Another Dimension or Temporal Turbulence : while active, Murad cannot be attacked or targeted, helping you dodge some of the Triple Threat slashes during those dangerous 5 seconds. Remember to build 4 Rift stacks with basic attacks so his passive Rift unseals Temporal Turbulence.

• Aleister

Aleister

Aleister has two layers of CC to shut down Florentino: Magic Barrier stuns, while Magic Prison locks him in a magic prison and burns him with magic damage for 2.5 seconds. The key is timing: Florentino is immune to all CC during the 5 seconds of Duel from Gentlemen's Duel and during the Sword Step dash of Shuffle , so use Magic Barrier while he runs to pick up flowers, or save Magic Prison for the moment Duel ends. Once pinned down, he can’t pick up the flowers from Blossom to refresh Triple Threat. Every third skill also detonates the Wicked Plot mark for true damage. Lock him down when teammates are nearby to burst him.

• Arum
• Baldum

Arum

Arum is a support who can lock Florentino down right on his way to your carries. Snare dashes in and binds the target, immobilizing both, and all damage one of them takes is also transferred to the other, so your teammates just need to focus their damage on Florentino. To be safe, avoid using this skill during the 5-second duel of Gentlemen's Duel when he is immune to crowd control; wait until the duel ends or he goes to pick up flowers from Blossom . Then Uncaged with all three beasts slows, heavily slows and then stuns for 1 second in turn, keeping him from reaching his flowers. The healing from the passive Ravenous Beasts helps Arum stand firm against Triple Threat.

Baldum

Baldum counters Florentino with well-timed CC and the ability to tank basic attacks. Wild Prison imprisons enemies for 3 seconds, during which the victim can’t do anything and can’t be targeted, so if you trap Florentino right as he goes to pick up flowers from Blossom , the three flowers, which only last 5 seconds, will have nearly expired by the time he is released. If he has already activated Gentlemen's Duel , back off and keep your distance, wait for the 5 seconds of CC immunity to pass, then cast Wild Prison or knock him up with Wild Charge . Wild Stomp reduces the physical damage that enemies hit deal to Baldum, great for absorbing Assault. The passive Hulking makes the target take 8% more damage.