Cyno Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• Elemental Burst form has incredibly high uptime.
• Powerful Hypercarry for Hyperbloom and Aggravate teams.
• High base CRIT DMG.

Weaknesses

• Swapping out during Elemental Burst immediately ends Burst.
• Using Elemental Skill during Burst requires proper timing.

Cyno can be built to either focus on a mix of Hyperbloom , Quicken and Aggravate, also known as "Quickbloom" or built solely around Aggravate instead.

As a Quickbloom DPS, Cyno has a large focus on Elemental Mastery to further increase his damage while on-field. This helps to make Ballad of the Fjords an amazing 4-star weapon option and only slightly worse than Staff of the Scarlet Sands when Ballad is at R5.

Electro DMG is better for Cyno's Goblet and CRIT is better for Cyno's circlet. However, Elemental Mastery artifacts with good substat rolls can end up being better for damage.

Furthermore, Cyno's artifact substats focus on Elemental Mastery to increase damage from both Hyperbloom DMG as well as the DMG increase from Authority Over the Nine Bows. ATK % is still good for Cyno with Quickbloom and helps to increase his overall DPS, just less important.

Cyno can also be played as an Aggravate DPS focusing on dealing high personal damage using his Elemental Burst, Sacred Rite: Wolf's Swiftness alongside other Dendro and Electro characters.

Staff of the Scarlet Sands and Ballad of the Fjords are still amazing weapons for Cyno shared with the Quickbloom build. Additionally, Thundering Fury is still a great artifact set for Cyno however the stat priorities have changed. Gladiator's Finale is instead a cheap yet powerful artifact set which you may already have good artifacts for. The ATK % buff obtained with the artifacts is great for Aggravate damage.

Cyno generally wants no more than 140% Energy Recharge with a rough minimum of 120% when using Thundering Fury. The exact amounts can vary wildly depending on your team composition, amount of Electro characters in your party and how many party members are using Favonius Weapons.

When using other artifact sets such as Gilded Dreams or Gladiator's Finale, your requirements may raise to around 140% -180% instead.

Cyno's main role is that of an on-field DPS who will trigger the majority of the teams damage. Using the Elemental Bursts and Skills of your party to set up buffs and Elemental Reactions before Cyno makes the most of them.

Sacred Rite: Wolf's Swiftness is Cyno's Elemental Burst which converts attacks into Electro DMG while inside of his Pactsworn Pathclearer stance. You will lose this stance if you change party members.

During your Elemental Burst, "Endseer States" will appear on screen. This are indicated by the giant eye-shape on your screen. You want to use Cyno's Elemental Skill Secret Rite: Chasmic Soulfarer during this prompt to deal masive damage.

All of Cyno's best teams always include a Dendro character witrh the remaining characer members depending on Bloom or Aggravate.

Cyno's best Dendro pairing for Quickbloom is Nahida however, Traveler (Dendro) is a good alternate option. For Hyperbloom rections Yelan and Xingqiu are great options to easily apply lots of Hydro with Furina providing powerful DMG buffs but a little less Hydro.

Kuki Shinobu and Baizhu are then great healers to support the team while helping to further reactions. Alternatively, Zhongli provides RES Shread and being a Geo character allows him to be uninvolved in reactions.

In Aggravate teams, you ideally want a team composing of 2 Dendro and 2 Electro characters to lower Energy Recharge requirements and further your reactions.

Fischl and Yae Miko are great Electro characters to support Cyno. Instead of Baizhu or Yaoyao, you could instead use generally powerful support characters such as Zhongli and Kazuha.