2K26 How to Dribble and Stun Defenders: Ankle Assassin Badge video

What is good everyone and welcome to the NBA 2K Lab channel. In this video, we'll be taking a look at the ankle assassin badge and more specifically the heavy and light stun percentages as well as some other useful tips to help counter it. Now, if you're new to the channel, don't forget to subscribe for the best tips on NBA 2K26. And let's get right into it. The ankle assassin badge does seem a bit random on when it decides to activate, but when it does, it typically gives a pretty big advantage to the offensive player. You may experience more ankle breakers on lower difficulty modes like park, theater, and wreck. And also on the flip side, you may see less ankle breakers on higher difficulty modes like proving grounds and proam. We also tested to see if higher perimeter defense helped counter the ankle assassin badge, and we'll get into that a little later in the video. But to test ankle assassin, we automated one of Kos's dribble sequences and used a modded controller to record the amount of light and heavy stuns against a defender with an 80 perimeter defense. We did this on Hall of Fame difficulty and attempted the same combo 200 times, which was an escape, escape, and then a snatch back. And did so at each badge level and without the badge. And here's the results. Starting off with the light stuns, the bronze and silver levels provide a decent boost. And if you can get any level of ankle assassin, you can expect to see the occasional ankle breaker. With bronze giving a light stun one out of every five times during our test. Silver doesn't provide a huge boost over bronze, but we can see a decent jump as we get to the gold level with a light stun percentage of 28%. Hall of Fame offers a minimal boost over gold and legend offers a slight boost over Hall of Fame in this scenario. But moving to the heavy stun percentage, and these are going to be the more noticeable stuns, so the percentages will be much lower. Bronze and silver showed heavy stun percentages of 1.5 and 2% and basically one out of every 50 combo attempts gave a heavy stun at these lower badge levels. Golden Hall of Fame stayed around 3 and a half% and Legend gave a heavy stun percent of 4 and a.5% which is almost one out of every 20 attempts. And based off these numbers, I'd say the sweet spot looks to be gold if you're actively trying to break a lot of ankles. But I've had silver or less on most of my builds. And honestly, it seems to be pretty effective in the park, theater, and the wreck. And when I dribble, I don't look to break ankles. It just kind of happens. So, at the very least, I recommend trying to get at least the bronze level. And silver is good for any builds that are going with at least an 85 ball handle. Now, lastly, we wanted to see if having a higher perimeter defense rating could negate some of the effects of ankle assassin. So, we tested this badge at the legend level against four different levels of perimeter defense. And here's what we found. Essentially, weaker defenders are significantly more vulnerable to this badge. And even at a 75 perimeter defense, there isn't much improvement from a 25 perimeter defense. But elite defenders with 99 saw far less stun percentages overall. So, if you find yourself getting stunned often, you may need more perimeter defense to help counter. It's also worth mentioning that the onball menace badge had no effect on ankle breaker frequency. Now, that is all we have for the ankle assassin badge. And I hope you guys found this video helpful. And if you did, don't forget to drop a like. Thank you all for watching. It's been Spill, and I'm out. Later.