Team Women Fighters

Team Women Fighters (, lit. "Female Fighter Team"), originally called the Female Team in earlier English translations, also called the Queens Team  in The King of Fighters: Destiny, and known as Team Heroines (, is a reoccurring Team in The King of Fighters series.

=Description= As the name implies, Team Women Fighters consists of any female character (or heroines), either from the own series and/or other SNK franchises (particularly from the shared universe games such as Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting). In the first games of the series, the group consisted of King, Mai Shiranui and Yuri Sakazaki (the bartender and the Kyokugenryu student coming from Art of Fighting series and the kunoichi from Fatal Fury series.

This is also the team with the most formation changes, starting with The King of Fighters '96. Originally, most of its members are locals, residing and/or had multiple crisis involvements at South Town, including those who are associate to the town's local fighters (such as May Lee Jinju being associated to Kim Kaphwan), until The King of Fighters '97, it introduces a member who has nothing with the town nor had past associate its locals completely, such as Chizuru Kagura, and later Hinako Shijou. The King of Fighters XIII is the only mainline game after the Orochi Saga with its classic formation. In most of the formations, King or Mai shares the leadership, regardless of both being on the same team or not.

=List of Members=

Orochi Saga



 * King (Art of Fighting series) - Founder and Leader of Women Fighters Team in '94, '95, '99, 2001, 2003, XIII and XIV. She left the team only in 2000, 2002 and XI.
 * Mai Shiranui (Fatal Fury series) - Founder and Leader of Team Women Fighters in 2000 and 2002. She left the team in '99 and XI, and returned in XIII.
 * Yuri Sakazaki (Art of Fighting series) - Founder and member of Team Women Fighters in '94/Re-Bout, '95, 2000, 2002 and XIII. She left the team in '96~'99, 2001, 2003, XI and XIV.
 * Kasumi Todoh (Art of Fighting 3) - Leader of Team Women Fighters only in '96 and member in '99 and 2000.
 * Chizuru Kagura (Original Character) - Leader of Team Women Fighters only in '97 and '98/UM.

NESTS Chronicles/Tales of Ash

 * Blue Mary (Fatal Fury series) - Member of Team Women Fighters in '99 and 2003. She left the team in 2000 and XI.
 * Li Xiangfei (RBFF2) - Member of Team Women Fighters in '99 (with a small absence during 2000) and 2001. She left the team in 2003. Also a member of younger iteration of the team in 2002 UM.
 * Hinako Shijou (Original Character) - Member of Team Women Fighters in 2000 and 2001. She left the team in 2003. Also a member of the younger iteration of the team in 2002 UM and 2003.
 * May Lee Jinju (Original Character) - Member of Team Women Fighters. She only joined in 2002, except in its UM update, where she appears in the younger iteration of the team.

Shun'ei Saga

 * Alice Nakata (Garou Densetsu: The Legend of Wild Wolf) - Member of Team Women Fighters. Only joined in XIV.
 * Athena Asamiya (Psycho Soldier) - Leader of Team Women Fighters in KOF XV.

=Members' Participation=

=Other Team Variants=

Team Pretty Girls Fighters
Team Pretty Girls Fighters (, lit. "Beautiful Girl Fighters Team"), is a younger iteration team of Team Women Fighters in The King of Fighters series. In The King of Fighters 2003, it was under the name Team High School Girls.

NESTS Chronicles

 * Li Xiangfei - Leader of Team Pretty Girls Fighters in 2002 UM. She left the team after this game.
 * Hinako Shijou - Member of Team Pretty Girls in 2002 UM and 2003. She left the team after 2003.
 * May Lee Jinju - Member of Team Pretty Girls in 2002 UM. She left the team after this game.

Tales of Ash

 * Athena Asamiya - Leader of Team Pretty Girls Fighters in 2003. She left the team after this game.
 * Malin - Member of Team Pretty Girls Fighters in 2003. She left the team after this game.

Team Super Heroines
Team Super Heroines, is an advance iteration of Team Women Fighters. This team appears for the first time in King of Fighters R-1, as simply Heroines Team. In The King of Fighters XV, they are an official team.

List of Members

 * Athena Asamiya - Leader of Team Super Heroines.
 * Mai Shiranui - Member of Team Super Heroines.
 * Yuri Sakazaki - Member of Team Super Heroines.

=Trivia=


 * This team isn't available in The King of Fighters XI.
 * Because May Lee Jinju appeared as part of Team Women Fighters in 2002 (a Dream Match game), she has canonically not been an official member.
 * This also might be the reason why she doesn't appear in the Women Fighters Team's ending in KOF XIII.
 * Team NESTS, Team Another World and Team Agents have similar all female member formations in The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match, The King of Fighters XIV and The King of Fighters XV, respectively, thus making this team to be the first to have more than one another variant of the all female team.
 * Athena's inclusion in the Women Fighters Team in KOF XV was foreshadowed by her special conversation with King in two mainline games prior, and in some Athena's win quotes against their members of the team.