The Best Shooting Badges in 2k24
The next most important thing when it comes to becoming a better shooter is choosing the right shooting badges for your play style. Whether you like to fade or shoot limitless range 3's, 2K has badges designed to help all the different shooting play styles. There are 16 shooting badges total and some badges can even be stacked to provide an even better boost. You can check out our full list of badges and specific badge tests here.
Best Shooting Badges For:
- Spot-Up Builds
- Catch and Shoot - Best Badge for Spotting Up
- Green Machine - Makes greening jump shots easier after consecutive green releases.
- ClaymoreClaymore - Grants a shot boost for remaining stationary for at least 2 seconds before the catch.
- Limitless Range - One of the best shooting badges but only if you have the rating to supplement it.
- Playmaking Shot Creators
- Agent 3 - Grants a shot boost for stop and pop shots, dribble pull ups and even shooting after dribble moves. One of the best shooting badges.
- Space Creator - Step back shots usually taken with the right stick get a boost.
- Middy Magician - Grants a boost on mid range fades or dribble pull ups.
- Reducing Contests
- Blinders - Reduced effective contest % from peripheral defenders.
- Deadeye - Reduced effective contest % from defenders closing out on an “open” shooter.
How to Get Lethal Zones + Avoiding Cold Zones
How to get hot zones. Hot Zones, Lethal Zones and Cold Zones are spots on the court that dynamically change based on your player's recent Field Goal % within each spot. Shooting in a Hot Zone or Lethal Zone can increase your shooting percentage while shooting in a Cold Zone can negatively affect your shot success. These zones make a huge impact on your shooting success, and the lethal zones provide a significant boost even more than your hot zones.
You can work on these zones by visiting Lethal Shooter at the Art of Shooting Gym. From there you'll speak to Lethal Shooter and choose which 2 zones you'd like to improve. If you complete the drill successfully, your cold zones will turn to neutral zones. The Neutral zones will turn to hot zones, and the hot zones will turn into lethal zones.
To access your Hot, Lethal and Cold Zones, Press Left on the D-Pad when in the city to bring up your phone, select the Squad Up square which should be the 1st option, thenSelect Your Name and scroll down to View 2K Card. You can then use your left and right triggers to scroll to your Hot Zones.
To Unlock a Hot Zone, you must shoot:
- 60% in the Paint
- 55% in Close Shot Area
- 50% in Mid-Range Area
- 40% in 3 Pt Area
- The criteria depends on your last 25 games which include MyCAREER, Park, Rec and Pro-AM with at least 10 shot attempts in each of those areas.
How to get rid of a Cold Zone:
- Keep shooting in each of the areas and get the percentages back up to reach the Hot Zone threshold.
- Wait 25 games and don't shoot at all in that zone
2k24 Best Settings for Shot Meter & Best Shot Timing / Best Shot Release
Under your Controller Settings, there's a few settings that can help you become a better shooter and green more shots. You can fine-tune the aesthetics and release time of your jump shot to find what's most comfortable for you.
Shot Meter
Under controller settings, you can actually opt to turn your Shot Meter Off to gain roughly a 5% boost to your shooting. Some people prefer to have the meter on and it all comes down to preference, but typically players at the higher level will not use the shot meter to get that extra boost.
There is also a Free Throws Only setting which will still grant you the shooting boost, but provides a visible shot meter ONLY during free throws which can help some players.
Another setting is Pro Stick Only which can come in handy for shot creators who like to take step back shots with the right stick. This allows them to still get the shooting boost when taking jump shots with the X or Square button.
Lastly there is a Shot Button Only which is essentially the opposite of Pro Stick Only.
Shot Timing
The most popular option would be Shots Only where your timing will only affect jump shots. We recommend this setting for most players.
Some players may opt for Shots and Layups where you'll have to be sure to time your layups correctly as well as your jump shot.
An unpopular setting and mostly frowned upon is the Real Player % where the game essentially times the jumpshot for you, and all you have to do is press the shoot button.
Shot Timing Release Time
One of the newest features in NBA 2k24 allows you to choose the preferred release timing of your jumpshot. Not be confused with release speed in the jump shot creator.
The options include Jump, Set Point, Push and Release.
The jumpshot will visually look and release the same with each setting, but the actual timing of the jumpshot may start earlier or later depending on which setting you have selected.
This is all preference and there is no in-game advantage to the different timings so experiment and find one that works well for you.
