Amped Up

What Amped Up does

Amped Up is the athletic-overload Zone Ability carried by the game’s most explosive athletes — Donovan Mitchell, Jaylen Brown, Joel Embiid, Paolo Banchero and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. When the carrier enters the Zone, Amped Up increases their physical ratings — Speed, Stamina, Power and Jump Height — all at once, supercharging their athleticism so they’re faster in transition, stronger barreling through contact, and higher off the floor at the rim.

Where many signatures specialize — shooting, passing, rim protection — Amped Up is a broad physical takeover. It makes the carrier a mismatch nightmare in every athletic category for the length of the Zone.

How to use it

Lean into the physical advantage. With Amped Up live, push the pace, attack the rim, and bully smaller defenders rather than settling on the perimeter. The stamina boost means you can keep attacking without fatigue dragging your finishes down, and the jump and power bumps make contested layups and dunks far more likely to fall. Use it to seize transition opportunities and to grind out tough buckets when the half-court bogs down.

The In the Zone meter

Amped Up comes online through the carrier’s own In the Zone meter — each player charges theirs with their own play: tricks, dunks, dimes and buckets, with bigger highlight plays filling it faster (the Aura rating is that player’s personal charge rate). When the meter is full, activate the Zone with L3+R3 for roughly 30 seconds of boosted speed, power and stamina plus the signature ability. Position the carrier before you pop it — activating while they’re out of position or gassed wastes part of the window.

Both the effect text and the carrier list here are verified verbatim from the in-game player-select cards.