Tips for Building Your MyPlayer in NBA 2K23

NBA 2K23’s MyPlayer Builder offers extensive customization options for your character. Despite its breadth, certain features might escape your notice, features that can significantly influence your MyPlayer Builder experience.

This guide will present five key tips for MyPlayer, enabling you to design the best player imaginable. So, without further ado, let’s dive in.

1. Utilize Shades for Enhanced Build Comprehension

A popular strategy for designing your character involves emulating an NBA superstar. Icons like Michael Jordan and LeBron James frequently serve as templates for players.

When crafting a player inspired by such legends, there’s no need to start from scratch and filter through stats. The NBA 2K23 builder simulator allows you to examine which “Shades” belong to various superstars, making it easier to align your character with their skills.

These superstar shades enable you to evaluate your character against existing players and gain insight into how different attributes interact.

2. Edit Your Current Characters

NBA 2K23 introduces a new component that permits you to alter any of your pre-existing characters. You won’t need to navigate through multiple menus to create a new character and strive for your ideal build. Instead, this feature allows you to experiment with different stats and designs, resulting in more diverse character configurations.

3. Envision Your Character

The more clearly you identify the type of player you want to become—along with the specific skills, strengths, and abilities you desire—the better you can fine-tune any character. Once you’re clear on your objectives, you can concentrate on the core attributes that support that playstyle.

If your aim is to play as a shooter, you’ll need to invest in ball handling, strength, and agility to create space for your shots and fend off defenders. The key takeaway is that without a defined build and clear playstyle, you might end up trying to balance all attributes, making it difficult for your character to excel in any area.

4. Analyze the Roster

Each player on the NBA 2K23 roster showcases distinctive attributes and skills, each complemented by various badges that distinguish them from the rest. This information is available in the player profile and can be very useful.

Understanding the stats of existing players can enhance your knowledge of different abilities and skills. With this knowledge, you can focus on creating more advanced builds for yourself, resulting in characters that excel in multiple ways.

Additionally, you can deepen your understanding of the shades associated with each player and superstar, enabling you to determine how to allocate your attributes effectively.

5. Badges and Attribute Distribution

Badges and attributes are interlinked; however, with the new adjustments, focusing on obtaining a single badge becomes challenging. Initially, particular attributes must be combined to earn a badge. The higher these values, the better the badge level available to you.

This could imply that you’ll be required to invest in attributes that may not align with your core goals. Therefore, we recommend pursuing specific high-tier badges while opting for bronze and silver badges in other areas, as they are less demanding on your attribute allocation.

Moreover, different attributes are interconnected. For instance, should you max out your ball handling, the builder will automatically enhance your shooting accuracy, speed with the ball, physical speed, perimeter defense, and driving layup, among other metrics.

Ultimately, you may find that you only manage to enhance your character to a score of 78 out of a potential 99. This indicates that not all attributes can be independently adjusted from one another.

Always remain mindful of which attributes are linked and where you may need to sacrifice or add points accordingly.

For every build, you should prioritize the distribution of attributes in relation to their corresponding badges. For instance, if you are crafting a shot creator build, your focus should be on allocating the majority of your points to shooting badges.

To simplify the process of aligning attributes with badges for each build, we’ve included a handy cheat sheet for the NBA 2K23 MyPlayer builder below to assist you in your attribute allocation.

• Playmaking Build: Playmaking > Shooting > Finishing > Defense/Rebounding
• Shot Creator Build: Shooting > Finishing > Playmaking > Defense/Rebounding
• Slash Build: Finishing > Shooting > Defense/Rebounding > Playmaking
• Defensive Build: Defense/Rebounding > Playmaking > Finishing > Shooting
• Shot Maker/Centre Build: Shooting > Defense/Rebounding > Finishing > Playmaking
• Paint Beast Build: Defense/Rebounding > Finishing > Playmaking > Shooting