Best Light Cones for Each Path and Character in Honkai Star Rail

September 2024 · 9 minute read

Light Cones are equipable items in Honkai: Star Rail, providing characters with bonus stats and effects. Certain Light Cones can increase a character’s damage or support potential by an incredible amount, and choosing the right one is essential for maximizing characters in endgame content.

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With only one Light Cone slot per character and a whole heap of choices, this guide is here to help you make the correct decision with a list of the best Light Cones for each Path and every Character in Honkai: Star Rail — including alternate options for new players and those of us having very little luck with the current banners.

Best Destruction Light Cones in Honkai Star Rail

As the name suggests, Destruction characters are all about dishing out heavy damage. On the Fall of an Aeon is generally the best Destruction Light Cone, increasing the user’s Attack whenever they strike an enemy, and Damage on Weakness Breaks.

Something Irreplaceable is also a fantastic choice and a personal favorite of mine, providing a permanent flat increase of 24% – 40% to Attack and a small heal when being hit or defeating an enemy.

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Best The Hunt Light Cones in Honkai Star Rail

I will stand by the testament that The Hunt characters are the best in Honkai: Star Rail, mainly due to my love for the Light Cones available, which makes this particular path shine. Characters that follow the path of The Hunt excel in single-target damage, often relying on Critical hits. In The Night is my go-to as it increases your character’s Critical Rate by 18% – 30% and boosts the damage of their Attack, Skill, and Critical damage of their Ultimate.

Sleep Like the Dead is a stellar option for characters relying heavily on Crit. It is another favorite of mine as it gives the character a flat 30% – 50% increase in Critical damage and their Crit rate when an attack fails to make a Critical hit. This works especially well with Dr. Ratio!

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Best Erudition Light Cones in Honkai Star Rail

Erudition characters are perfect for simultaneously dealing damage to multiple enemies — commonly known as AoE (Area of Effect) damage across the gaming sphere. Night on the Milky Way and Before Dawn are your best choices for Erudition units, though which you choose depends on your specific character.

Night on the Milky Way increases the character’s Attack based on how many enemies you’re facing and boosts Damage on Weakness Breaks. This works well with characters like Serval and Himeko.

Before Dawn has a flat Critical, Skill, and Ultimate damage increase. Following a Skill or Ultimate being used, the character will gain Somnus Corpus, which provides a massive damage boost when a follow-up attack is triggered.

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Best Harmony Light Cones

Harmony characters are the hypemen and women of Honkai: Star Rail, strengthening their allies by buffing them and removing debuffs inflicted by enemies.

But the Battle Isn’t Over is the best Light Cone for all Harmony characters and has helped me the most in battle, as it increases their Regeneration rate and generates a Skill Point when an Ultimate is used on an ally. It also raises an ally’s damage by a considerable amount every time your character uses their skill, which is generally every turn for an Abundance character.

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Best Nihility Light Cones in Honkai Star Rail

Nihility characters are the opposite of those walking the path of Harmony, instead focusing on debuffing and weakening enemies. In the Name of the World is perfect for every Nihility unit, providing a 24% – 40% increase to the user’s damage against debuffed targets and increasing their Effect Hit Rate and Attack when using a Skill.

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Best Preservation Light Cones in Honkai Star Rail

Preservation characters are the equivalent of tanks in Honkai Star Rail, shielding your team and often taking the brunt of attacks. This means you’ll need a lot of Defense, and Moment of Victory provides more than enough.

With Moment of Victory equipped, your character gains a permanent 24% – 40% increase to their Defense and Effect Hit Rate. It also increases the chance of being hit by enemies and increases Defense even further when attacked. “Get hit, get paid” is what I like to say.

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Best Abundance Light Cones in Honkai Star Rail

Abundance characters are your team’s primary healers, with the core goal of keeping your team’s health constantly topped up at the cost of typically outputting little to no damage.

Time Waits For No One is by far the best Light Cone for all Abundance characters. Equipping it will increase your character’s outgoing healing by 12% – 20% and maximum HP by 18% – 30%.

While this alone would make it the go-to choice for an Abundance character, it also passively deals damage based on the healing value of your character when an ally attacks an enemy once per turn — minor extra damage as a treat.

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What is the Best 5-Star Light Cone in Honkai Star Rail?

The best 5-Star Light Cones in Honkai Star Rail are In the Night and Before Dawn. As previously mentioned in this guide, these two Light Cones significantly increase the potential of the characters who have them equipped. If you had to pick one of these Light Cones, I recommend picking Before Dawn for the Erudition Path. The significant boost of 36% to CRIT damage cannot be overlooked. This is, of course, only if you prefer to have a character of the Erudition Path in your party.

This guide was written from my experience playing Version 1.0.5 of Honkai: Star Rail on PC.

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