Here is the NBA 2K23 Badges & Takeover Guide, Analysis, and Requirements, which lists all badges, badge tier lists, badge requirements for both current and next-gen, takeovers, takeover perks, how to unlock badges, as well as a breakdown of tips, info, and more when you click on each individual badge.
How to Unlock Badges
- Badges are organized by the skill categories of Finishing, Shooting, Playmaking, and Defense/Rebounding.
- Badges are unlocked by accumulating enough points in each skill skill category that turn into Badge Points. Earned Badge Points can be spent on badges per skill category.
- New Tiered Badges System. There are 16 badges per attribute category: eight in Tier 1, four in Tier 2, and four in Tier 3. Tier 1 badges are the least powerful for your player, but also cost the least amount of badge points.
- Costs go up as you climb the tiers and acquire the more impactful badges. The basic idea is that you’ll need to equip a certain number of badges in the lower tiers before you can equip badges in the highest.
- New “Core” badges, which are four unique badge slots (one in each attribute category) that can be filled with badges that don’t count toward your badge points.
- Each core badge will have a challenge requirement that, once met, will allow the badge to be placed into a core badge slot.
NBA 2K23 Badge Points (Next-Gen)
Name | TIER 1 | TIER 2 | TIER 3 |
BRONZE | 1 | 3 | 5 |
SILVER | 2 | 4 | 6 |
GOLD | 3 | 5 | 7 |
HOF | 4 | 6 | 8 |
Click on any of the individual badges to get the full NBA 2K23 Badges breakdown and analysis! This includes a list of best builds for each badge, badge tips, badge info, and more.
NBA 2K23 Badges Guide & Requirements
1. Finishing Badges
2. Shooting Badges
3. Playmaking Badges
4. Defense / Rebounding Badges
5. Badge Points & Req. (Last-Gen)
6. Takeover Guide
7. Takeover Perks
Finishing Badges
Shooting Badges
Playmaking Badges
Defense / Rebounding Badges
NBA 2K23 Badge Points & Req. (Last-Gen)
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NBA 2K23 Takeover Guide
Takeovers are special abilities you can equip on your MyPLAYER that you can activate after building up your Takeover meters. Basically, like getting hot in real life. While the primary and secondary Takeovers remain the same, Team Takeover has been redesigned.
In the last couple of versions, a player would activate Team Takeover for the entire team and make everybody hot after filling up the primary, secondary, and then Team Takeover meters in sequential order. For NBA 2K23, Team Takeover works as a cooperative team system with the entire team sharing a single meter. Each player on the team has an equal portion that they’re responsible for filling up by performing well on the court and being good teammates. Once each player has filled up their portion of the meter, Team Takeover automatically fires off for the entire team. The new design makes a lot more sense and does a better job representing what it means to be hot as a team and to take over the game as a unit.