NBA 2K27 Fuse and React Badges

NBA 2K27 replaced last year's max plus ones with the synergy screen: fuse badges, which are boosted for the whole game, and react badges, which sit under a fuse badge and switch on once it has fired enough times. The catch is that the game only lets certain badges react under each fuse badge, and both badges still have to be ones your height can equip.

This page is the game's full pairing table for all 53 badges across 20 heights, 1,256 allowed pairings in total. Pick your height and the badge in your fuse slot, and it lists every badge that can go in the react slot under it.

• How fuse and react badges work
• Which badges can react under your fuse badge
• How to set up your fuse and react slots
• Every fuse and react pairing in NBA 2K27
• The full pairing grid

How fuse and react badges work

There are 16 synergy slots, eight fuse and eight react. Twelve of them give a badge a +1 tier and four give a +2, and the slots are earned through season rewards, build specialization, crew and rep. Each react slot is paired to the fuse slot above it.

• Not every badge can react under every fuse badge. Each fuse badge has its own list of allowed react badges, from 9 options under Quick Trigger to 38 under Slippery Off-Ball. The list is the game's, not ours, and it is what the picker below reads.
• Your height still applies. A badge that your height cannot equip cannot sit in either slot. Brick Wall, Wall Up and Rise Up need 6'5 or taller, Mini Marksman stops at 6'4, and 26 of the 53 badges have a height gate of some kind, so the same fuse badge has a different react list at 6'2 than at 6'9.
• The pairing has a direction. Pick Dodger can react under a fused Brick Wall, but Brick Wall cannot react under a fused Pick Dodger. If a pairing you want is missing, try swapping which badge is the fuse.

Which badges can react under your fuse badge

Choose your build's height and the badge you have in the fuse slot. Everything listed can be equipped at that height and is allowed to react under that badge.

How to set up your fuse and react slots

• Fuse your most expensive badges. A fuse badge costs zero badge tokens, so the badge that would otherwise eat the most tokens in its category is the one to put there. The tokens it frees pay for the badges around it.
• Fuse badges that fire early and often. The react badge does nothing until its fuse badge has triggered enough times, so a fuse badge you hit on your first few possessions turns the react badge on sooner. Set and Fire over Deadeye is the classic pairing: a couple of standstill threes and Deadeye is boosted for the rest of the game.
• Leave a badge slot open for the react badge. A react badge is a normal equipped badge that gets a boost later. If every badge slot in its category is full, it cannot be equipped, fuse or no fuse.
• Check both directions before you give up on a pairing. The list is not symmetrical. A pairing the game refuses one way round is often allowed the other way, with the roles swapped.

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Every fuse and react pairing in NBA 2K27

The same table with no height filter: every fuse badge, and every badge allowed to react under it. A height next to a badge is its own height limit; a badge with no note can be equipped at every height from 5'9 to 7'4.

Pairings and height limits are read from the game's own synergy table for every badge at every height, not from testing. Categories are the ones the badge screen uses. If 2K changes a pairing in a patch, this page is updated from the new table.

The full pairing grid

Every fuse badge down the side and every react badge across the top, at 6'5. A check means the badge across the top can react under the badge down the side. A red X means it cannot. A dash means one of the two cannot be equipped at this height. Scroll the grid sideways and down; the badge names stay put.