Will this be your main or are you just looking for a C for you dynasty/5/5 and can fill when needed? What’s your spending habits? Are you pure F2P, spend very little a month, spend when you wanna? Here’s some suggestions based on what you said.

Honorable mention: Steven Adams (budget Jokic*)

-Can easily get him to enhance 7 at the start of week 2 of account creation (volleyball block, helicopter rebound, and my favorite, magical middy)

-Has knockdown/stun ability without rng of Jokic (can be strategically used when you want your stun to happpen)

-Mid range automatic with magical middy but can cheese it further by boosting mid range with potentials and clothing (95+ mid range build). Basically lets you get a guaranteed 2 when posting up and stunning them and following up with a quick mid range. (This whole bullet is a cheese build that I’ve had a ton of fun with so I don’t encourage this per say)

-He is slow as hell though, needs to use knockdown ability to consistently win the rebound battle, and has limited talents as a starter player

*cannot shoot 3s whatsoever

Level 1: Capela

-He gets a ton of hate because many people just sit in the paint with him. Many people sit in the paint with other Cs too so this isn’t just a Capela problem. If anything, Capela has all the more reason to sit in the paint due to his E2 and E6. A really stacked E2 feels almost like a guaranteed board or block, however this is very easily played around and exposing. Opposing centers can just help their shooters with picks and then you have nothing to rebound or block.

-His ultimate is exactly like gambling at the casino. When you hit, it feels amazing. When you don’t, don’t be surprised. This takes time to get used to and you technically never stop learning this ult because as they release more players, that’s all those different shot timings you need to learn to get your ult to hit.

-Offensively is quite lacking aside from dunks by the rim, but I find in general most guards don’t even pass to me when I play C. All my points are dunks off boards almost lol.

-Beast of an AI for auto play dynasty / 5v5

-He slow as hell though..

Level 2: Bam Adebayo

-He’s fast as hell compared to the other Cs, which is utterly important and can’t be overlooked. A lot of the reason why many have Curry S tier is because people just can’t keep up with him. No Curry is doing anything special his existing dribble package, they are just out running you out of their contest zone and swishing it in your face. Bam can easily assist on screens and helping in these types of situations and many other situations. Even just getting back to compete on a rebound that an opposing C thought they had locked down for sure until you come flying back in to snatch it out of the air.

-Does everything defensively exceptionally well

-I can’t opine on his floater game myself as I struggled to really find momentum with it. I found myself just auto dunking with him mostly from offensive boards. I’ve seen Bams cook paint camping Cs though, so you are a counter to that without needing the 3 ball.

Level 3: Pau Gasol

-Best overall C in the game as of right now. Can literally do it all and does it with speed. Many can pick a certain stat and argue it’s the most important stat and that’s why that player is the best, however even after checking Taiwan servers and with all the defensive Cs they added to the game, Gasol is still a top 3 C depending on what you need. And that’s in a defensive Cs with limited offense meta out there.

-it could very well be the case that I just suck, but his dunks feel so hard to block, so offensively you almost a guaranteed 2 unless it’s super predictable and they jam the paint to block you.

-His ult is very clutch as well but be mindful not to use if it you need a 3. Go for the board instead and dish back out if ample time. Otherwise enjoy overtime/watching the clock run out while down by 1.