Team Hero

The Team Hero (チームヒーロー, Chīmu hīrō), also called the Hero Team in earlier English translations, is a reoccurring Team in The King of Fighters series.

Description
The Team Hero is one of the many teams found in The King of Fighters. For all intents and purposes, the members of this team are considered the main characters of that game's plot (and sometimes the entire saga). After (and during) each saga, the teams receive the following nomenclatures:


 * Orochi Saga: Team Japan;
 * NESTS Chronicles: Team K';
 * Tales of Ash: Team Ash;
 * Shun'ei Saga: Team China (in KOF XIV) and Team Shun'ei (KOF XV).

List of Members
Orochi Saga=
 * Kyo Kusanagi - Leader of Team Hero from KOF '94 through '98/UM.
 * Benimaru Nikaido - Member of Team Hero from '94 through '98/UM on its first incarnation, and join two later incarnations in both '99 (Team K') and XV (Team Shun'ei).
 * Goro Daimon - Member of Team Hero from KOF '94 through '98/UM.


 * -|NESTS Chronicles=


 * K' - Leader of Team Hero from KOF '99 through 2002/UM.
 * Maxima - Member of Team Hero from KOF '99 through 2002/UM.
 * Shingo Yabuki - Member of Team Hero in KOF '99. Left after '99.
 * Ramon - Member of Team Hero in KOF 2000. Left after 2000.
 * Vanessa - Member of Team Hero in KOF 2000. Left after 2000.
 * Whip - Member of Team Hero in KOF 2001 and 2002/UM.
 * Lin - Member of Team Hero in KOF 2000. Left after 2001.


 * -|Tales of Ash=
 * Ash Crimson - Leader of Team Hero in KOF 2003 and XI. Left after XI.
 * Duo Lon - Member of Team Hero in KOF 2003. Left to join Team Rivals in XI and XIII.
 * Shen Woo - Member of Team Hero in KOF 2003 and XI. Left to join Team Rivals in XIII.
 * Oswald - Member of Team Hero in KOF XI. Left after XI.


 * -|Shun'ei Saga=
 * Shun'ei - Leader of Team Hero in KOF XIV and XV.
 * Tung Fu Rue - Member of Team Hero in KOF XIV. Left after XIV.
 * Meitenkun - Member of Team Hero in XIV and KOF XV.

Trivia

 * The Team Hero is has the most tournament wins out of any Official KOF Teams; as they officially won the tournaments of '94, '95, '96, '97, '99, 2000 and 2001.
 * Due to Benimaru jumping to different teams throughout the installments, he has the most tournament wins out of any official participant in KOF.
 * Usually, after a member of Team Hero leaves, a said member either joins or creates a new Team.
 * Benimaru has done this the most out of all the team members of Team Hero. He created the Benimaru Team in 2000, joined with another teams (rejoining Orochi Saga's Hero Team, Japan Team in 2001 and 2003, and join third arc's Rivals Team in XI), and having been in two later incarnations of Team Hero (Team K' in '99, and Team Shun'ei in XV).
 * Daimon hasn't been apart of other incarnations of Team Hero after KOF '98/UM (canonically since KOF '97) through out the sagas.
 * Tung is the only Team Hero member who isn't an original character of KOF, being a Fatal Fury character.
 * KOF XIII is the only game with no Team Hero, due to Ash's purpose to go solo and his supposedly villainous role. In the same game, Tales of Ash's Rival Team, Team Elisabeth can also be sometimes count as the saga's last iteration of Team Hero, as Elisabeth herself being the main protagonist throughout the thirteenth storyline.