Never Forget Her Flame is The Dahlia’s signature 5★ Nihility Light Cone in Honkai: Star Rail 3.8. It is designed around Break Effect, Break DMG, and team Skill Point economy, making it a central piece of the modern Super Break playstyle.
Never Forget Her Flame stats and effect (Superimposition 1)
At Superimposition 1, Never Forget Her Flame provides three key benefits:
- Large Break Effect increase: The wearer gains a flat 60% Break Effect, active at all times.
- Shared Break DMG buff at battle start: When combat begins, both the wearer and one teammate receive a 32% Break DMG increase. By default, that teammate is the character who initiated combat. If no such teammate exists, the buff instead goes to the wearer and the ally with the highest Break Effect. Effects of this specific type cannot stack with other identical buffs.
- Skill Point refund on applying Weakness: When the wearer applies a Weakness type to an enemy, the team recovers 1 Skill Point. This effect can trigger once per use of the wearer’s Ultimate, then resets when the Ultimate is used again.
The combination of permanent Break Effect, a two-unit Break DMG buff, and reliable Skill Point generation is rare among Light Cones and is the main reason Never Forget Her Flame is considered a premium option for Break-focused teams.
How the Light Cone interacts with The Dahlia’s kit
The Dahlia is a Fire Nihility support built entirely around Break and Super Break damage. Her kit applies the “Dance Partner” state, increases Break efficiency, lets allies deal Super Break even before enemies are fully Weakness Broken, and supplies follow-up damage plus debuffs.
Never Forget Her Flame slots into this design almost perfectly:
- Break Effect scaling: The Dahlia’s traces already give her substantial Break Effect, and several of her buffs scale with that stat. Adding 60% more directly strengthens both her own Super Break output and the Break Effect buffs she shares with allies.
- Buff coverage for both Dance Partners: In typical play, The Dahlia enters combat alongside a primary Break DPS such as Firefly. That DPS usually triggers combat, so the Light Cone’s 32% Break DMG buff lands on exactly the two characters doing the majority of Super Break damage: The Dahlia and her Dance Partner.
- Skill Point economy: The Dahlia’s kit already offers Skill Point recovery via her follow-up attacks. Never Forget Her Flame adds another source tied to applying Weakness, which aligns with her Ultimate’s ability to implant weaknesses on all enemies. This interaction helps support Skill-hungry DPS units that spend a Skill almost every turn.
Because of this alignment, Never Forget Her Flame does not just increase The Dahlia’s personal numbers. It reinforces every aspect of her intended role: Break amplification, Super Break uptime, and resource support for the team.
Impact on Super Break and Firefly teams
Super Break teams built around Firefly benefit the most from Never Forget Her Flame.
In a typical Firefly Super Break composition, The Dahlia acts as the Break support and sub-DPS, while Firefly is the main Break DPS. Characters like Fugue, Harmony Trailblazer, Gallagher, or Lingsha often fill the remaining slots. In this environment, the Light Cone’s strengths are very clear:
- Consistent Super Break amplification: Once enemies are taking Super Break damage, the 60% Break Effect plus 32% Break DMG for both The Dahlia and Firefly translates into a sizable increase in every Break window, not just the first one.
- Support for long boss fights: Against bosses that survive through multiple Break cycles, sustained damage boosts tend to be more valuable than single front‑loaded bursts. The Light Cone’s permanent stats and recurring Skill Point refunds remain useful from start to finish.
- Comfortable rotations for Skill‑hungry DPS: Firefly often wants to use Skill every turn. With The Dahlia’s trace‑based Skill Point recovery plus the Light Cone’s refund on Weakness application, teams can maintain aggressive Skill usage without running dry.
Other Break DPS such as Boothill and Rappa do gain damage from the Light Cone’s Break Effect and Break DMG, but they cannot use The Dahlia’s full Break-before-Break toolkit as efficiently as Firefly does. For them, the Light Cone is still strong, yet the overall package is less transformative than it is in a dedicated Firefly Super Break team.
Comparison with other Light Cone options
Several other Nihility Light Cones are viable on The Dahlia, but each one trades away a part of what Never Forget Her Flame offers.
- Solitary Healing: Grants 20%–40% Break Effect and increases the wearer’s DoT after using their Ultimate, also restoring a small amount of Energy when enemies affected by the wearer’s DoT are defeated. This works well for a DoT‑oriented Nihility character and still gives Break Effect, but it does not share a Break DMG buff with an ally and it focuses on damage‑over‑time rather than Super Break bursts.
- Holiday Thermae Escapade: Increases the wearer’s overall damage by 16%–32% and can inflict Vulnerability, causing enemies to take extra damage for a short time. This is a decent general‑purpose offensive Light Cone, yet it lacks any Break‑specific bonuses and does not help with Skill Points.
- Resolution Shines As Pearls of Sweat: On hit, has a 60%–100% chance to Ensnare enemies, reducing their DEF by 12%–16% for one turn. The DEF reduction benefits the whole team and is useful in content like Memory of Chaos, but the Light Cone again offers no Break Effect scaling and no direct interaction with Super Break damage.
By comparison, Never Forget Her Flame uniquely combines high Break Effect, a two‑unit Break DMG buff, and Skill Point generation. Alternative options either favor different playstyles (DoT) or give generic damage/DEF debuffs that do not specialize in Break.
Light Cone versus Eidolons and other investments
For players considering deep investment into The Dahlia, there is a natural question: is Never Forget Her Flame more valuable than her first Eidolon or higher Eidolons?
Her Eidolons provide powerful benefits. For example, the first Eidolon extends her Talent’s Super Break DMG bonus to all allies and adds fixed Toughness reduction when the Dance Partner attacks. Later Eidolons further debuff enemies, increase the hit count of her follow‑up attacks, and eventually grant a large Break Effect bonus plus action advance for Dance Partners.
In practice, the signature Light Cone and the early Eidolons solve slightly different problems:
- Never Forget Her Flame focuses on consistent damage and rotation comfort. It always adds Break Effect, gives a persistent Break DMG bonus to the main Break pair, and improves Skill Point flow.
- E1 and beyond often add conditional power, such as extra Toughness reduction in specific encounters or additional layers of damage taken debuffs and follow‑up hits.
Player priorities differ. Many value the Light Cone first because it immediately boosts performance in every fight and applies to any team where The Dahlia appears. Others prefer the first Eidolon for encounters where extra Toughness reduction or wider Super Break access is the limiting factor. Both paths are strong; the Light Cone tends to be the more universally comfortable upgrade, while Eidolons offer more situational spikes.
When Never Forget Her Flame is worth pulling
Whether Never Forget Her Flame deserves your Stellar Jade depends mainly on how committed you are to Break teams and to The Dahlia herself.
Pulling the Light Cone is usually worth it if:
- You are building or already using a Firefly‑centered Super Break team and plan to keep that team as a core lineup.
- You use The Dahlia frequently as a dedicated Break support and want her to function as both an amplifier and a secondary damage dealer.
- Your account does not have other high‑investment Break‑oriented Nihility Light Cones that offer comparable Break Effect and team damage for this archetype.
You can reasonably skip or delay the Light Cone if:
- You do not run Break compositions often, or you rely on other damage types such as DoT or standard hypercarry setups.
- Your roster lacks core Break DPS units like Firefly, so The Dahlia is not a central piece of your strongest teams.
- You already own strong alternative Light Cones at high Superimposition that cover your current Break needs and you prefer to save for future characters in upcoming versions.
For players who are deeply invested in Firefly and Super Break, Never Forget Her Flame is one of the highest‑impact upgrades available for The Dahlia and meaningfully raises the ceiling of the entire team. For more generalist accounts, its value narrows along with The Dahlia’s niche: powerful inside Break teams, modest outside of them.
