Team Yagami

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

Description
As the name implies, this team is formed by Iori Yagami and some characters who have aligned with him, acting as a primary Team Rivals in the Orochi Saga. The first formation occurs in The King of Fighters '95, and the  ' 96 incarnation is the most well-known formation, which returns in  ' 98/UM and 2002/UM, and canonically in XIII and XIV.

At first, the real objective of the team was to rival the protagonists of the SNK franchises (Kyo Kusanagi, Terry Bogard and Ryo Sakazaki), but, with the unstable behavior of its leader, this proposal was undone. With the sole aim of killing Kyo, Iori constantly allies himself with the two servants of Orochi, Mature and Vice (despite both being Sacred Treasures guardians) and, in the 8th entry in the series, with the agents Vanessa, Seth and Ramón.

Leader

 * Iori Yagami - Leader of the team that bears his surname. He left the team in '97, '99, 2000, 2003 and XV and returned in 2001, XIII and XIV.

Members

 * Eiji Kisaragi - Member of Team Yagami. Only joined in '95.
 * Billy Kane - Member of Team Yagami. Only joined in '95.

Members

 * Mature - Member of Team Yagami. Due to her death in '96, she did not join in '97 until XI, but returned in Dream Matches '98/UM and 2002/UM, and canonically in XIII and XIV.
 * Vice - Member of Team Yagami. Due to her death in '96, she did not join in '97 until XI, but returned in Dream Matches '98/UM and 2002/UM, and canonically in XIII and XIV.

Members

 * Vanessa - Member of Team Yagami. Only joined in 2001.
 * Seth - Member of Team Yagami. Only joined in 2001.
 * Ramón - Member of Team Yagami. Only joined in 2001.

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 Iori is Kyo's direct rival (and the only Three Sacred Treasures cursed by Orochi), the KOF '96  formation, with Mature and Vice (two Orochi servants), appears with their participations in yellow.

KOF EX Team Formation
The team has a new formation, exclusive for The King of Fighters EX2: Howling Blood (released only in the Game Boy Advance). The new characters added to the team are Jun Kagami and Miu Kurosaki.

Howling Blood

 * Jun Kagami - Member of Team Yagami. Appears only in Howling Blood.
 * Miu Kurosaki - Member of Team Yagami. Appears only in Howling Blood.