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Dec 08, 2023

The best Honkai Star Rail light cones

The best Honkai Star Rail light cones can drastically improve the attributes of

The best Honkai Star Rail light cones can drastically improve the attributes of your characters, but you’ll need to know how to find and upgrade them first.

Nat Smith

Published: Apr 26, 2023

Want to equip the best Honkai Star Rail light cones? Unlike traditional weapons, Hoyoverse's epic intergalactic adventure dispenses with swords and bows in favour of abstract memory cards you can equip for passive benefits to your characters.

As a result, wishing for the best Honkai Star Rail characters at the top of our tier list will only get you so far in the free PC game. For characters to perform at their best, it's essential that you equip them with the best Honkai Star Rail light cones relevant to their kit. That's easier said than done, so here are the best light cones available, as well as how to find and upgrade them in the turn-based game.

Honkai Star Rail light cones contain the memories of specific characters, represented by the character portraits that appear on their icon. As luck would have it, this also doubles as a clear indicator of the best light cones for each character, since their effects are specifically designed to complement their attributes.

However, you may find that you don't have a perfect match for your light cone. While you’re free to equip a character with any light cone in the open-world game, you can only activate the light cone's powerful passive ability by equipping it to a character with a corresponding path. Characters with a different path will still benefit from the boost to health, attack, and defence that all light cones provide, but this is the least optimal use for them. Thankfully, our list features the best light cones in Honkai Star Rail for each path, so you never have to worry about making a perfect match.

Here are the best Honkai Star Rail light cones:

You can acquire light cones as quest and exploration rewards, or by purchasing them with Undying Starlight on the Starlight Exchange. However, if you’re looking for the very best Honkai Star Rail light cones the anime game has to offer, then Honkai Star Rail Warps are your best bet. While there's only a small chance to pull ultra-rare five-star light cones from Honkai Star Rail banners, their potency leaves their three-star and four-star counterparts in the dust.

Once you’ve got the best Honkai Star Rail light cones in your possession, upgrading them should be your first priority. You can level them up by consuming enhancement materials, credits, and even low-value light cones – but be aware of occasional level caps that require light cone ascension materials to surpass. Finally, you can increase the effect of your chosen light cone's passive ability via Superimposition, an upgrade process that can only be initiated by consuming a duplicate light cone.

Now that you have the best Honkai Star Rail light cones, we recommend ensuring your characters can also ascend by increasing your equilibrium levels. A character is only as good as the team they’re on, so check out our guide to building the Honkai Star Rail team comps, as well as our list of the active Honkai Star Rail codes for currency to pull more powerful characters.