Best Cyrene Light Cones HSR 2026
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This guide is fully updated for Honkai Star Rail Version 4.5. For complete coverage on this character, check out our companion guides:
Before you pick the best Cyrene Light Cone for your build, there’s one important fact to keep in mind – Cyrene walks the Remembrance Path. While she can physically equip a Light Cone from any Path for its base stats, its unique passive abilities and skill effects will only trigger if she is equipped with a Remembrance Light Cone.
She’s a 5-star Ice support who buffs the team and charges everyone’s Ultimate the first time she uses her own, and SPD decides whether all of it arrives on time. This guide ranks her Light Cone options in HSR, from her signature down to the strongest free pick.
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Best Cyrene Light Cones Ranked (TL;DR)
Here’s the short version, and the headline is that Cyrene gets most of what she needs from a free Light Cone.
| Rank | Light Cone | Why It Ranks Here |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | This Love, Forever | Her signature stacks an 18% SPD boost with a teamwide CRIT DMG buff and an enemy damage taken debuff, and both amplifiers grow once she ramps up. |
| 2 | Long May Rainbows Adorn the Sky | Matches the same 18% SPD figure and adds its own enemy damage taken debuff, which pays off most on Castorice and March 7th (Evernight) teams. |
| 3 | Memory’s Curtain Never Falls | The strongest free option, bought outright from Herta’s Store, and it still moves her toward the SPD breakpoint her kit is built around. |
| 4 | Victory In a Blink | A free 4-star fallback that trades SPD for flat CRIT DMG plus a small team damage buff when her memosprite acts. |
This Love, Forever – Best in Slot
This Love, Forever is Cyrene’s signature Light Cone and the cleanest fit for what she actually does. At Superimposition 1 it increases her SPD by 18%, which is the stat that decides how often she refreshes Future on her allies and converts it back into Recollection points.
The rest of it keys off her memosprite, Demiurge. At Superimposition 1, when Demiurge uses a Memosprite Skill on an ally, the Light Cone gains Blank, which increases DMG taken by all enemies by 10%. When it uses one on an enemy instead, it gains Verse, which increases all allies’ CRIT DMG by 16%. Holding both at once increases each effect by a further 60%.
Here’s the honest call: it’s a real upgrade rather than a requirement, since her team buffs live in her Talent and Skill instead of her gear. It was the featured Light Cone on the Bygone Reminiscence banner in the second phase of Version 4.3, from June 24 to July 14, 2026, so it’s off-banner now and needs a rerun.
Best Alternatives to This Love, Forever
Long May Rainbows Adorn the Sky is Hyacine’s signature Light Cone and the closest thing to a straight swap, since at Superimposition 1 it carries the same 18% SPD Cyrene is built around. When her memosprite uses its Skill, it increases the DMG taken by all enemies by 18% for 2 turns, a wider vulnerability window than Blank provides.
The trade is that her Basic ATK, Skill, and Ultimate each drain 1% of every ally’s current HP to fuel an Additional DMG hit, so it reads best with a healer already in the team.
Victory In a Blink is the budget answer, and it’s the rare 4-star option you can finish collecting without pulling for it. At Superimposition 1 it increases Cyrene’s CRIT DMG by 12% and, whenever Demiurge uses an ability on an ally, increases all allies’ DMG dealt by 8% for 3 turns. One copy comes from the Night Veil, Shroud the Past Trailblaze Mission, with up to four more in the Forgotten Hall store at 200 Lucent Afterglow each.
Best F2P Light Cone for Cyrene
Memory’s Curtain Never Falls is the best free Light Cone Cyrene can hold, and it’s a genuine 5-star Remembrance option rather than a 4-star compromise. At Superimposition 1 it increases her SPD by 6.0% and, after she uses her Skill, increases all allies’ DMG dealt by 8% for 3 turns.
You buy it outright for 8 Herta Bonds in Herta’s Store inside the Simulated Universe, and the Superimposer (Custom Made) used to superimpose it costs 2 Herta Bonds a copy from the same shop.
The gap against the signature is real but narrow. You give up 12% SPD and the Blank and Verse buffs, and you keep the part that matters most: reaching 180 SPD to switch on her Causality in Trichotomy Bonus Ability is what genuinely changes her output, and this Light Cone plus a SPD Relic set gets you there.
Verdict: Which Light Cone Should You Give Cyrene?
This Love, Forever is the right answer if you can get it, because 18% SPD alongside Blank and Verse is the only package that raises her turn count and the team’s damage ceiling together. It’s off-banner right now, so most players are really choosing between the free options.
Memory’s Curtain Never Falls is where I’d point almost everyone, since a 5-star Remembrance Light Cone for 8 Herta Bonds is the best value in HSR for a support of her kind. Take Long May Rainbows Adorn the Sky instead only if you already own it and run a healer, and keep Victory In a Blink as the stopgap while you farm the Simulated Universe.
FAQs
The best F2P Light Cone for Cyrene is Memory’s Curtain Never Falls, a 5-star Remembrance option you buy for 8 Herta Bonds in Herta’s Store inside the Simulated Universe. It increases her SPD and increases all allies’ DMG dealt by 8% for 3 turns after she uses her Skill.
Yes, This Love, Forever is worth it for Cyrene because it’s the only Light Cone that pairs 18% SPD with both an enemy vulnerability buff and a team CRIT DMG buff. It stays a luxury rather than a requirement though, since Memory’s Curtain Never Falls covers the SPD she actually needs for nothing.
Yes, Cyrene can use Earthly Escapade for its base stats, but its passive will do nothing for her because it’s a Harmony Light Cone and she walks the Remembrance Path. Give her a Remembrance Light Cone instead so the passive genuinely triggers.
The best Light Cone for Cyrene is This Love, Forever, her signature, which increases her SPD by 18% and turns her memosprite’s actions into an enemy vulnerability buff and a team CRIT DMG buff. If you don’t own it, Memory’s Curtain Never Falls is the closest free substitute.
Yes, Cyrene needs a Remembrance Light Cone for its passive to do anything, since a Light Cone’s unique effect only triggers when its Path matches the character’s own. She can equip any Light Cone in HSR for the base stats, and only a Remembrance one switches the effect on.
