 Pretty much every time an NBA 2K game launches my hawk on the game trying to get as much information as possible so that I'm creating the most overpowered build in the game. This year is pretty hard to come by information so I've been trying my best to get as much as I can. And in the process of doing so I've come across some builds with a variety of different play styles that I think are going to be the best builds when NBA 2K 19 fully launches. So let's get into it. The first build and credits to Davis on this one because he sent me the screenshots is a Playmaker primary sharp shooter secondary. This was a popular build last year so I thought it was going to see some nurse because they were trying to balance the game. But this build is the only build in the game six foot four and under where not only do you have a great three point rating. You have silver shooting badges but on top of that you can speed boost off rip and you don't have to break attribute caps and upgrade your player to do it. So you can be a dribble head with a good three point shot. Now we don't know what the defense is looking like on this build but if you're an offensive oriented guy and you like to handle the ball. Without a doubt this is your build and chances are one out of every three point guards will be using a build like this is going to be popular. You'll see it everywhere. I would recommend reducing your wingspan because this year wingspan makes a dramatic difference in your attribute category. And who is it grizzly sent me this tweet here six four shooting guard sharp shooting playmaker which is a playmaker primary sharp shooter secondary. It gets a 86 ball control immediately and he was scrolling through and it's kind of pixelated because Twitter video sucks. But if you look closely it says open shot three seventy nine seventy nine. If you reduce it from six four to six three with the minimum wingspan you jump up to an 80. Shout out to NBA 2k lab. These guys do the most for the community and they just came out with a badge comparison website. I'm going to leave a link in the description if you guys want to play around with it. But I'm going to use it for this video just to show you why I think some builds will dominate. You go point guard playmaker primary sharp shooter secondary update the badges. So obviously you get all the playmaker badges on gold includes ankle breaker break starter pick and roll my show. And of course probably the most important one dimer. But more importantly not only do you get an 83 point shot which by the way is impressive considering seven three pure stretch bigs with max wingspans have a seventy one open shot three. You will have a three point rating ten higher than a pure stretch that's seven three with the max wingspan. So of course you get the silver shooting badges includes the limitless range and corner specialists. But you also get mid range dead eye tower the score difficult shots. And I was hoping catching sheet with silver and bronze and that's unfortunate. That might have been their way to try and balance the game because had it had catch and shoot on silver would have taken the already OB to another tier. Ladies and gentlemen this is the do it all offensive build. We don't know what it's like on defense yet. But I I'm going to make one myself. And I'm going to leave Davis is linking the description he made a build video. You can click that and watch his video if you want to know more information. But let's move on. So the next archetype is actually two archetypes and I'm having trouble deciding between the two. So I'm going to put them in the batch comparison and we'll make a decision together. Depending on your play style one of these builds will make sense. And again is at the guard position. Both of these are point guards. One is a pure shock reader and the other one is a shock reader primary playmaker secondary. If you like your pure shock reader last year I'm just being honest. It looks like pure shock readers are back and better than ever to the point where I don't even like shock readers but I'm really considering making one off rip. You get the full hall of fame badges you'd expect to have the score of difficult shots which is one of the best badges in the game mid range that I and tear dropper tear dropper is specifically important if you remember because Mike Wang said you can do tear drops off spin moves and euros this year. So if you're a really good player you can find in credit you can find a lot of creative ways to use that badge to your advantage. Of course there's the acrobat up and under. Whoa what? Why do shock readers get up and under specialists? Shouldn't that be a post-score thing and they get it on gold? I'm so confused right now. The reason I put this build on the list is because of the silver badges. For whatever reason this year they gave pure shock readers all of the sharp shooter badges on silver. They got corner specialist on silver, limitless range on silver, catch and shoot on silver and then lob city finish on silver. So of course you're going to be finishing the ball well not as good as a slasher but well. You're going to be able to handle the ball because you're a shock creator and you can fade coming off of screens so you don't even need much space to get open but on top of that this build depending on the height you make it between 63 to 64 you're looking at between a 74 to a 72 open shot three. That's not a great rating but that's definitely something you can work with. I thought it was going to be in the high 60s. So I'm just saying if you've been a shock creator kind of guy you're going to love this build I can tell. So the shock creating primary playmaker secondary I'm not as big of a fan of but because of the sheer amount of badges and attributes it might make sense. Now my thinking is that since shooting is going to be harder this year in the playground and in the pro m if you have a build without sharp shooting like if you have a 70 open shot three but you wouldn't even really have the shooting badges the way the pure shock creator has a shooting badges you might benefit from like picking roll maestro gold but that's coming off screens what about times where you're not coming off screens. They're both really good. I just think I would rather have the pure shock creator over the shock maker. That's really dope. I didn't even know they did that. They compare the amount of Hall of Fame gold silver and bronze badges to one another. The next bill then this one should come obvious. You should have seen it coming is the pure sharp shooter. Every year you use the pure sharp shooter you can look at the actual screen and on paper it definitely doesn't look impressive and each year it looks worse and worse on paper. But when you get into the actual game it is one of the most useful archetypes ever. I'm just saying if I'm playing on the park or the prime I'm going to want one of these on my team at all times. Not only does it help stretch the floor but if shooting is harder this year then it's going to pay to have an archetype that can most consistently hit their shots and you can rely on them. So you can just take a look at the badges. They have a Hall of Fame corner specialist deep range dead eye which the dev said is bound to activate more this year. So it's going to be more helpful than it was last year limitless range which the dev said got a pretty big nerf this year compared to last year catch and shoot which is always one of the most useful badges in the game and free throw ace free throw ace is important because some of the big men in the game aren't even going to have bronze free throw ace this year. So you could potentially playing a prime game hack the other player put them at the free throw line and there's a good chance he just goes one for two with a good release. So I'm just saying late game if there's one archetype you want to pass the ball to to hit a free throw is this one right here. Of course they got the tireless score on gold. The mid range dead eye on gold and the quick reflexes on gold which I assume is going to help pick off interceptions. Maybe what does that do that badge. I don't think this is going to be the best build in the game by any stretch of the imagination. I just think it's going to be the most useful build. You're going to need shooters on your team. That's all I know. The next archetype and you guys know this if you watch my videos I'm really excited about is a pure glass cleaner. I don't know what it is about glass cleaners this year. I am incredibly excited for them. Well I do know what it is. We saw the gameplay right and I'm not talking about the prelude gameplay that's all beefed up and it's not actual sliders when you get in the game. I'm talking about the gameplay I reviewed in the video a few days back. I see a lot of benefit to having glass cleaners ladies and gentlemen I think that they will be offensively a liability because you're not you're not going to be able to shoot threes in the corner like you did last year just because you have hot spots and some boosts. You're going to have to put your glass cleaners on offense 18 feet away on the mid range and just get them ready for easy little Jimmy. But where I see this bill dominating is just getting you three and four shot attempts because they're always coming down with rebounds and then God forbid you get to take over badge with the glass cleaner and it tells you where the rebound is going to lie the second the shock goes up you're beating everybody to the boards. And then at that rate you could just start to chuck up shots with sharp shooters and shock payters and playmakers and the glass cleaner will always be there. I really recommend you go back and watch that video I did breaking down the gameplay a few days ago because it really really outlined why not only is strength going to be important but you're rebounding waiting because even if you're in bad position this year you can fight your way through a whole lot of bullshit to come down with rebounds like sharp shooters glass cleaners don't have a ton of badges but the badges they do have are very useful. Put back King Hall of Fame break starter hustle rebounder which I assume is going to be one of the most useful badges in the game. Of course bruiser is always annoying when you're setting a million screens Hall of Fame brick wall and that doesn't even include charge card somehow you get rim protect around gold I didn't see that happening. So you're nice on offense and defense on the board. You have the strength but now you can apparently swat everything away as well and then they even laced you with like a posterizer on silver. So if you're down low you're getting those contact dunks man listen if you're here's what I'll say if you're a glass cleaner send me a tweet I'm going to be looking for some glass cleaner to play with and the final build I want to talk about in this one in no way did I see coming was a pure lockdown. Ladies and gentlemen what happened to the lockdown defenders this year not only is stealing buffed from last year which I don't like but if you have a lockdown this year I know you're going to think I'm exaggerating because I use big words you will get a ton you will be picking the ball off and intercepting so many times and probably the reason I'm most excited about this build is because if you max out the three point waiting for like an average lockdown is going to be around 55 which isn't good this is a player and I'm going to say this because off rip I don't think this player is going to be good but for the people who grind I think the lockdown for grinders is going to be the best build in the game. If you grind and unlock all your three point attribute caps you will have around a 65 open shot three and then you might think agent I don't think I can hit consistently with a 65 open shot three I don't have a lot of shooting badges but you do I don't know why you do but you do if you look down here and scroll down of course you have the pick and dodge the pick dodger defensive stopper chase down artist all the stuff you'd expect from a lockdown but I do not know why they did this they gave pure lockdowns silver corner specialist so I know some of the devs were talking about how they wanted to buff the offense for lockdowns this year so that more people start to create the build but I might have think they went too far giving them silver corner specialist not only will you be menacing to all those play sharps trying to jibble around you or those point guards the shock creators but on top of that you're telling me on offense you won't be a complete liability and if you want to play the safe route and you're not great at timing a jump shot and you think 65 is too low you can go with a lockdown primary and sharpshooter secondary now the badges on this aren't as good and with the lockdown badges are everything so I would probably just recommend the pure but I know I was looking for lock sharps all last year on the program and I couldn't find one there's not many of them out there but it's a very very useful build a lot like sharpshooters on paper it doesn't really look like it's as good as a pure lockdown but when you actually get in the game and play with him oh my god to have the consistent three-pointer on top of a player who can lock down and stop that five out cheese is so useful so all of the Hall of Fame badges except quick reflexes surprise surprise gets relegated to a gold so you don't have them on Hall of Fame that's an L but you still keep the silver corner specialist and you get a bump to your shooting attributes on top of that for whatever reason they gave him a deep range dead eye of silver a limitless range of silver a catch-and-shoot of silver so depending on which way you want to roll with it I am so excited to play with and hopefully get on an account and try out one of these builds I don't know if I'm gonna make one because I can't see myself grinding all the way to with a lockdown I can't see it I might just like buy it off somebody I won't you know what no I won't because that's against TOS and I would never do such a thing oh ladies and gentlemen there you have it those are the builds that I believe will be the most overpowered come mba2k19 launch do yourself a favor come on mba2k lab I'm not getting paid to say it I'm just saying you could investigate here and get some more information the way I'm doing on Twitter and on the website if you guys enjoyed the video make sure to drop a like subscribe to the channel because I'm gonna be dropping a steady dose of these 2k19 videos I'm gonna catch you guys in the next one I'm out peace