Team Kyo

Team Kyo is a reoccuring Team in The King of Fighters series.

Description
As the name implies, this team is formed by Kyo Kusanagi and some characters who have aligned with him, acting as the Hero Team of the Orochi Saga. The classic formation of this team occurred when Kyo Kusanagi, Benimaru Nikaido and Goro Daimon met during one of the qualifiers for the KOF tournament, which at the time was organized by criminal Rugal Bernstein. Kyo, heir of the Kusanagi clan, one of those who sealed the entity known as Orochi, won the first place, followed by Benimaru and Daimon. The team led by Kyo has, as one of his main missions, prevent the imminent return of the evil divinity.

During the NESTS Chronicles, the team was undone due to Kyo's disappearance in  '99 and later his solo mission in 2000, until it was remade at the end of the saga, with the presence of Shingo Yabuki, the big fan of Kyo, to defeat the cartel that cloned the heir to the Kusanagi clan. The classic team was also present in the XIII and XIV tournaments. In The King of Fighters XV, the team appears as the Sacred Treasures Team, due to Kyo being descended from one of the three clans that sealed Orochi 660 years ago, along with Iori Yagami and Chizuru Kagura and, in The King of Fighters XI, this team appears as an alternative formation of the sacred team, with Shingo Yabuki replacing Chizuru, due to the priestess being weakened after the theft of Yata Mirror, the sacred artifact of the Kagura clan, by Ash Crimson.

List of Members

 * To see the team variant formed by Kyo, Iori and Chizuru and the variant formed by the two first mentioned and Shingo, check Team Sacred Treasures.

Leader

 * Kyo Kusanagi - Leader of the team that bears his name. He left the team in '99, 2000 and 2003 and XV and returned in 2001 and XIII.

Members

 * Benimaru Nikaido - Member of Team Kyo. He left the team in '99, XI and XV, and returned in 2001 and XIII (in KOF 2003, he replaces Kyo as a leader of Team Japan).
 * Goro Daimon - Member of Team Kyo. He left the team in '99, XI and XV, and returned in 2001 and XIII.

Member

 * Shingo Yabuki - Member of Team Kyo in 2001 and XI.

Members

 * Iori Yagami - Member of Team Kyo in 2003, XI, and XV.
 * Chizuru Kagura - Member of Team Kyo in 2003 and XV.

Members' Participation

 * Participation of the members of the team during the mainline series (and some spin-offs).


 * Note 1: About the colors in the table, they follow the logic below:


 * Yellow: for table titles.
 * Lime & Red: for the characters' participation in the team.
 *  Forest Green & Fire Brick: the first color indicates the characters who participated in the team in all times which he appeared in the series, and the second indicates the characters who were absent in the team from, at least, one game in the series.


 * Note 2: Due to the fact that Kyo, Iori and Chizuru are the Three Sacred Treasures, the participations of Iori and Chizuru in KOF '96 and KOF '97 are in yellow.