Team Kyo

Team Kyo is a reoccurring 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 the teams 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 had, as one of his main missions, prevent the imminent return of the evil entity known as Orochi.

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 clans that sealed Orochi, 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.

Orochi Saga

 * 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.
 * 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 the team).
 * Goro Daimon - Member of Team Kyo. He left the team in '99, XI and XV, and returned in 2001 and XIII.

NESTS Chronicles/Tales of Ash/Shun'ei Saga

 * Shingo Yabuki - Member of the team in 2001 and XI.
 * Iori Yagami - Member of the team in XI and XV.
 * Chizuru Kagura - Member of the team in XV.

Trivia

 * All members of the team are Japanese. However, Iori and Chizuru can't be considered part of the Team Japan, due to his intentions in the tournament.
 * Due to the fact that the team bears his first name, Kyo is the only character who is always present in him.
 * This team, along with the Team Japan, has the second most tournament wins out of any Official KOF Teams; as they officially won the tournaments of '94,  '95,  '96,  '97 and XIV (in the Orochi Saga, as the Team Hero).
 * Due to Benimaru jumping to different teams throughout the installments, he is the character with most tournament wins out of any official participant in KOF.
 * The Team Sacred Treasures appears as a Story alternative team in The King of Fighters '96, The King of Fighters '97 and The King of Fighters 2003. However, this team is not officially part of the game's roster.
 * In KOF 2003, the team is also present, but their members makes a single entry in this game.
 * This team, Team Hero, Team South America, Team Rivals, Team Japan, Team Ikari Warriors, Team Sacred Treasures, Team K', Team Benimaru, Team Asian Triple Alliance, Team Agents, Team Ash, Team Elisabeth, Team Shun'ei, Team Mexico, Team G.A.W. and Team East Asia are the only teams of the series which one or more members win a KOF tournament.