Genshin Impact Cyno Guide: Best Weapons, Artifacts, and Materials Needed for Ascension

Cino it’s a five stars Electric character inside Genshin Impact and will have its first appearance in 3.1 update. Cyno is a scholar of Sumeru Akademiya and holds the respected position of General Mahapatra. He is quite a strict person and takes his job very seriously because many people have misunderstood him in the past. In addition to being a popular character, his style of play and his kit are unique and powerful. This guide will discuss all information about Cyno in Genshin Impact along with the best artifacts, best weapons and talented materials.

Cyno in Genshin Impact: character introduction, play style and skill set

Talent leveling priorities

Main DPS construction

Elemental Blast = Elemental Ability> Normal Attacks

Cyno’s passive talents

Feathisfall judgment

When Cyno is in the Pact Pathclearer state, activated by Sacred Rite: Wolf’s Swiftness, Cyno will enter Endseer’s position at intervals. If he activates Secret Rite: Chasmic Soulfarer while affected by this stance, he will activate the Judication effect, increasing the DMG of this Secret Rite: Chasmic Soulfarer by 35% and firing 3 Duststalker Bolts that inflict 100% of Cyno’s ATK as Electro DMG. Duststalker Bolt DAN is considered Elemental Skill DAN.

Authority over the nine arches

Cyno’s DMG values ​​will be increased based on her Elemental Mastery as follows:

• Covenant Pathclearer’s normal attack DMG is increased by 150% of his Elemental Mastery.
• Duststalker Bolt’s DMG from his Passive Talent Feathisfall Judgment is increased by 250% of his Elemental Mastery.

The gift of silence

Earn 25% more rewards when sent on a Sumeru expedition for 20 hours.

The constellations of Cyno

The best artifacts built for Cyno in Genshin Impact

DPS construction

Cyno is a selfish DPS character and will usually take a long time on the pitch on most rotations and team compositions. Cyno’s burst is very powerful and has a long uptime, which makes it important that he is better equipped as other DPS bursts won’t be able to support him very much. The damage scale of him with the ATK% and EM of him to some extent due to his passive talent, so it is recommended to use ATK% or EM Sands depending on his build. In addition to this, he will use the usual DMG Electro Bonus Goblet and a Crit Rate / Damage Circle. In this section of the guide we will talk about the best artifact sets to build for Cyno in Genshin Impact.

Cyno can be equipped with a host of powerful artifact sets that can greatly increase his damage. Ideally, his Best-in-Slot artifact would be Thundering Fury or Gladiator’s Finale, which can increase his damage by a considerable margin. Cyno can also be equipped with a composition of various 2-piece artifact sets.

Thundering Fury

• Set bonuses
• 2 Piece Bonus: Electro DMG Bonus + 15%
• 4-Piece Bonus: Increase damage from Overcharge, Electrocharging, and Superconducting by 40%. Activating these effects reduces the DC of elemental abilities by 1 second. It can only occur once every 0.8 seconds.

The gladiator’s ending

• Set bonuses
• 2 piece bonus: ATK + 18%
• 4-Piece Bonus: If the owner of this artifact set uses a Sword, Clay, or Pole Weapon, they increase Normal Attack DMG by 35%.

Sweet dreams

• Set bonuses
• Bonus 2 pieces: Elemental Mastery +80
• 4-Piece Bonus: Within 8 seconds of activating an elemental reaction, the character who equips it will get buffs based on the elemental type of the other party members, the ATK is increased by 14% for each party member whose type elemental is the same as character gear, and Elemental Mastery is increased by 50 for each party member with a different Elemental Type. Each of the aforementioned buffs will count up to 3 characters. This effect can be activated once every 8s. The character who equips it can still activate its effects

Hybrid Artifact Set:

In addition to the 4-piece artifact set, you can also try the 2-piece hybrid sets, as they are much easier to farm and usually have better secondary stats than those of the 4-piece sets. For Cyno there are many options, the main ones being 2pc Thundering Fury + 2pc Wander’s Troupe / Gilded Dreams. These hybrid sets are not far behind the main 4 piece set and if you can get some divine 2 piece sets, use those, but test your artifacts in the game on Cyno.

• Artifact damage potential ranking: With a heavily invested minimum-maximum, Cyno’s artifacts can be classified in this order:
  • Thundering Fury> Thunder Sucker = Gladiator = Golden Dreams
  • Artifact Stat Priority: DPS

To maximize the damage potential for any character, the minimum-maximum will always have the utmost importance. Cyno primarily uses his Elemental Burst to deal damage, which simplifies which sub-stat should have priority. Aside from the overall DPS stat, you should first aim to clear the ER% threshold, because, in optimal spins, its burst is pretty important. Once ER% is not an issue, focus on increasing CR / CD / EM as required. Cyno has high base stats, but since he scales with ATK% and EM he tries to get a little more out of the artifact secondary stats. Flower and Plume are always easier to grow, so he tries to get you the ones who have divine critical relationships.

Desired substats: CR% E CD%> ATK% = EM

ER% requirement for Cyno

Cyno’s main source of damage comes from his Elemental Burst, which allows him to infuse Electro onto his weapon and deal a lot of damage. The ER% threshold for his he Elemental Burst depends on which team Cyno is used on, but to be on the safe side, he tries to aim for at least 130% or more. With a dedicated Energy battery, Cyno can probably only settle for 120% ER, however,

if it doesn’t have a battery, it will need 180% or more for its constant uptime. Cyno’s best slot weapons will not have Energy Cooldown as a substat, so all ER% must be acquired from the artifact substats, so farm and level up the artifacts accordingly.

The best weapons for Cyno

Staff of the Scarlet Sands is Cyno’s signature weapon and is one of the best weapons for him thanks to the weapon’s powerful passive that is tailor-made for him. Most weapons require good substats from various artifacts, as Cyno is dependent on more attributes than the average character. Other viable options include the Primordial Jade Winged Spear or the Staff of Homa, which is close enough in terms of damage with his signature weapon. In this section of the guide we will talk about the best weapons for Cyno in Genshin Impact.

Among the four-star weapons, Deathmatch, Blackcliff Pole, and Missive Windspear are excellent choices and far above the other unlikely options. Surprisingly, the White Tassel is also a great F2P alternative that can even beat some five-star weapons.

Note: Weapon rankings should only be taken as a reference as damage numbers can vary depending on multiple factors such as team compositions, characters, artifacts and rotations, so, test your characters to see what the best weapon for them. The current rankings have been made by making estimates of various factors.

Weapon ranking for Cyno

Staff of Scarlet Sands> Primordial Jade Winged-Spear = Staff of Homa> Calamity Queller> Vortex Domminatore> Death Match = Blackcliff Pole = White Nappa> Skyward Spine> Missive Windspear

Staff of the Scarlet Sands

• Basic ATK – 542 (Level – 90)
• Substat- 44.1% Crit Rate
• Passive weapon: thermal haze at the far end of the horizon

Equipped character gains 52% of their Elemental Mastery as a bonus ATK. When an elemental ability hits opponents, the Scarlet Sands Dream effect will be gained for 10 seconds: the character who equips it will gain 28% of their elemental mastery as a bonus ATK. Maximum 3 batteries.

Winged spear of primeval jade

• Basic ATK – 674 (Level – 90)
• Substat- 22.1% Crit Rate
• Passive Weapon: Eagle Lance of Justice

On hit, boosts ATK by 3.2% for 6 seconds. Maximum 7 batteries. This effect can only occur once every 0.3 seconds. While holding the maximum possible stack, the DMG distributed is increased by 12%.

Homa staff

• Basic ATK – 608 (Level – 90)
• Substat: 66.2% critical damage
• Passive weapon: reckless cinnabar

HP increased by 20%. In addition, it provides an ATK bonus based on 0.8% of the wielder’s maximum HP. When the wielder’s HP is below 50%, this ATK bonus is increased by an additional 1% of maximum HP.

Chase away calamity

• Basic ATK – 741 (Level – 90)
• Sub-statistic: 16.5% ATK
• Passive weapon: extinction precept

Get 12% Elemental DMG Bonus. Gain Consummation for 20 seconds after using an Elemental ability, increasing ATK by 3.2% per second. This ATK boost has a maximum of 6 stacks. When the character equipped with this weapon is not on the battlefield, Consumation’s ATK increase is doubled.

Deathmatch

• Basic ATK – 454 (Level – 90)
• Substat- 36.8% Crit Rate
• Passive weapon: Gladiator

If there are at least 2 opponents nearby, ATK is increased by 24% and DEF by 24%. If there are fewer than 2 opponents nearby, ATK increases by 36%.

white tassel

• Basic ATK – 401 (Level – 90)
• Substat- 23.4% Crit Rate
• Passive weapon: sharp

Increases normal attack DMG by 24%.

Spine towards the sky

• Basic ATK – 674 (Level – 90)
• Substat- 36.8% energy recharge
• Passive Weapon: Blackwing increases CRIT Rate by 8% and boosts normal SPD ATK by 12%. Additionally, normal and charged attacks on opponents have a 50% chance to activate a blank blade that deals 40% ATK as DMG to a small AoE. This effect can occur no more than once every 2 seconds.

Cyno material requirements for ascension

Here are the materials needed for Cyno leveling and ascension up to max level 90, mentioned in this Genshin Impact Cyno Guide.

Talent Upgrade Materials:

Here are the materials needed to level up the skill talents mentioned below in this Genshin Impact Cyno Guide.

Special dish

• First name: Soul Duel
• Description in the game: Cyno’s specialty. The golden rice grains were piled up like an extraordinary hill. As you pick up a piece and put the fragrant meat in your mouth, an impulse you can’t name rises in your chest: the desire to whip out your Genius Invocation deck and duel!
• Food effect: Restores 34% of maximum HP to the selected character and restores 980 HP every 5 seconds for 30 seconds.

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