Spot Up Shooter: Shop Up Shooters get a marked improvement to hit from deep, especially in catch and shoot situations.
Shot Creator: Shot Creators become more effective at shooting off the dribble and can shake off defenders consistently using stepback and spin gathers.
Slasher: Slashers receive extra boosts to finishing at the rim in traffic and more effective gathers to get past the defense.
Playmaker: Playmakers can freeze defenders more often with augmented ball handling abilities and can enhance their teammates’ shot making off assists.
Lockdown Defender: Lockdown Defenders receive boosts to steals and shot contests, allowing them to clamp down even the best scorers in the game.
Rim Protector: Rim Protectors get strong shot contest boosts and an arsenal of exclusive blocks that allow them to anchor the defense.
Glass Cleaner: Glass Cleaners receive the ability to read missed shots, win more box out battlers, secure more boards, and finish putbacks more consistently.
Post Scorer: Post Scorers become more dominant in the paint with stronger backdowns and enhanced moves and shots.
Next-Gen Takeover
In NBA 2K21 Next-Gen, you will have 24 total Takeover options to choose from, with the eight above options broken into distinct categories for more specific Takeover abilities.
How Takeover Works in Next-Gen: You fill out your attributes and get a list of Takeover options. You can choose one or two Takeover options for your player.
A Note about this new System: You can activate your primary Takover in Next-Gen by filling up the first bar. The second bar activates both of your options, and a third bar activates Team Takeover.
Here is the List, broken down into each category and with a short description of what each Takeover does and boosts:
Slashers: Slashers receive extra boosts to finishing at the rim in traffic and more effective gathers to get past the defense.
- Advanced Gathers: Unlocks more effective spin, euro, hop step, and cradle gathers
- Finishing Moves: Able to absorb contact and finish at the rim more effectively.
- Easy Blowbys: Enhances abilities for slashers to beat defenders off the dribble.
Shot Creator: Shot Creators become more effective at shooting off the dribble and can shake off defenders consistently using stepback and spin gathers.
- Pull-Up Precision: Boosts well-timed/aimed shots off the dribble.
- Anklebreaking Shots: More anklebreakers off of spin and stepback jumpers.
- Negative Impact: Reduces defensive impact against pull-ups and other skill shots.
Spot Up Shooter: Shop Up Shooters get a marked improvement to hit from deep, especially in catch and shoot situations.
- Limitless Range: Extend your shooting range out to the logos.
- Spot-up Precision: Boosts well timed/aimed stationary jump shots.
Playmaker: Playmakers can freeze defenders more often with augmented ball handling abilities and can enhance their teammates’ shot making off assists.
- Team Ratings Boost: Playmakers boost their teammates’ offensive ratings
- Team Takeover Boost: Boost your teammates’ takeover meter progress.
- Team Badge Boost: Boosts your teammates’ badges up a tier.
Lockdown Defender: Lockdown Defenders receive boosts to steals and shot contests, allowing them to clamp down even the best scorers in the game.
- Extreme Clamps: More Stone wall and lost dribble body-up resolutions for locks
- Perimeter Badge Drop: Knocks shooting badges down a tier when you get close
- Enhanced Jump Shot Contests: Boosts your ability to contest jumpers.
Rim Protector: Rim Protectors get strong shot contest boosts and an arsenal of exclusive blocks that allow them to anchor the defense.
- Stuff Blocks: Unlocks more swat, backboard pins, and grab blocks
- Paint Intimidation: Boosts your ability to affect shots around the rim.
- Interior Badge Drop: Drops opposition’s scoring badges down a tier
Glass Cleaner: Glass Cleaners receive the ability to read missed shots, win more box out battlers, secure more boards, and finish putbacks more consistently.
- Boxout Wall: Improves ability to seal off opponents for easy boards.
- See the Future: Shows where missed shots are going to end up.
- Glass Clearing Dimes: After rebounds, kick out passes boost your teammate’s shooting.
Post Scorer: Post Scorers become more dominant in the paint with stronger backdowns and enhanced moves and shots.
- Power Backdowns: Easier to push defenders around when posting up.
- Post Playmaking: Boost your teammates’ offensive abilities when passing out of post.
- Advanced Post Moves: Easier to beat defenders with post moves.
- Post Shot Daggers: Increased scoring ability with hooks, fades, shimmy shots, etc.