I was greatly surprised that Kim isn’t in XV. Considering he’s been in every KOF game since 94

I really miss Shingo. He's my second favorite character from KOF. It's impossible not loving that goofball.

No joke, everybody I've seen get exposed to Yamazaki almost always ends up liking him or will easily remember him. I'm also puzzled on why one of the absolute best fighting game villains ever created is often cast aside considering he fulfills a unique gameplay role, is easily recognizable, widely liked by fans and new players, and is enough of a bad guy that he can slot into teams and even introduce new ones or long forgotten characters. Yamazaki/Mature/Vice would have been a great team or bring back Mr. Big or shatter expectations and have fellow Southtown psycho Freeman join forces. He needs to become a mainstay.

Kasumi, Mature, Vice, Sylvie, Kim, Shingo, Oswald, Hinako… they all should be there. And I’d love to see Xiangfei back. Based on her growing popularity in 2002 UM and her being top-tier there are enough reasons for her to make it back.

Quick update: Geese, Billy and Yamazaki are a DLC team

I miss Eiji Kisaragi. Would absolutely love to see him come back as DLC.

SNK really likes you. They complied to some of your demands already.

No Kim is as insane as when Mai wasn't in KOF 12, although that game was an incomplete mess as is.

Takumas excuse was that he was retired whether it be age or BBQ business. That's what Yuri said. I still want him in

"Yamazaki is easily one of the best fighting game characters ever created" truer words have never been spoken.

This video aged quite quickly

I'd love to see Kasumi Todoh back. Love her counters and combos

This video really show how many amazing character SNK have created, each one of them have left very memorable and iconic moment among its fans, which make SNK really hard to decide who needed to be included in the main roster, since they cant pleases everyone with their current limited budget when developing 15 We sure are having a good time to experience and having fun with lot of SNK character till this day, hope you get your character in the future dlc

Wow, they really revealed three characters on here not even a full day after you uploaded this. Almost like they're trying to spite you in the best way possible. 😂 #PREDICTABO

I think that because the orochi team is back, the USA Sports Team should come back as DLC to have a canonical rematch

Increadibly unlucky for that they dropped a dlc plan a day after this video lmao

Yamazaki in the women fighters team joke was hilarious, I personally hope he'll be in a team with Geese and Billy or maybe Mature and Vice. As for Kim, putting him with Chang and Choi like the good old days is something I won't mind at all. And if there some characters I want to be a DLC, teams from Samurai Shodown and Garou will be amazing (I know it's rumoured to happen).

Kim has always been the only non-zoner in my teams. Guess my opponents will have to deal with fireballs throughout.

I know they're not super popular, but I'd be ecstatic to see the Anti-Kyokugenryu Team come back.

"I want geese and yamazaki as dlc" SNK: B e t

Just watched SNK DLC Trailer, glad his no 3 & 4 will be in it although they're DLC in May

This aged really fast.

Great list! It's a good thing you specifically mentioned why they're absent in the BASE game, because Geese and Yamazaki just got announced as DLC lol But seriously though, WHERE IS KIM?!? I was 100% convinced he was already announced for KOF XV but to my shocking surprise he wasn't... I really hope he comes back with either Chang and Choi or with Gang-il and May Lee! And they better make his pants look GOOD

I'm glad we both want Yamazaki, Mature and Vice a lot in XV, hopefully any of them will be DLC in the future.

By the time this video have came out, SNK already drop a bomb of a trailer revealing 6 of the DLC guest characters that will be in KoF XV.

Geese, Billy, Yamazaki are dlc.

Looks like we're going to get Geese and Yamazaki! PREDICTABO! 😎

Due to the new DLC announcement, I don't know if this video aged like wine or came out at the worst time (Just one day before said announcement)

The Sports team was interesting I wish they would bring them Back!

Kim is an OG, and he's been in like every game. The fact that SNK didnt put him in XV base roster, is a shocker indeed.

I love how geese is in the thumbnail and he gets announced literally the day after

Geese, Billy and Yamazaki are returning. They were confirmed as dlc, Team South Town as of 2 days ago

In all fairness. ShoryuGame did say the roster could change at anytime. I would like seeing Takuma team up with Marco Rodriguez. I don't know who the 3rd person could be. We need Rugal badly. Rugal with his children? Goenitz with Vice and Mature would be cool.

Okay, hot take. I think Chang, Choi and Sylvie (along with two others) should be a bit higher. Hear me out. Hear me out. Chang and Choi... Actually more or less got their own story arc. They have finally escaped from Kim and joined the crazy criminal, Xanadu and looks like they are going back to their own habits. But it is clear that even Xanadu could make Yamazaki say "Dude, lay off the drugs" and creep Chang and Choi out. It is clear that they are going to get a "Hmm... Maybe Kim isn't that bad" revelation. Kinda predictable, but hey, it is STILL something plot-wise. It doesn't even have to be important to the main plot! And Sylvie. Maybe I remind everyone that she is an ex-NESTS member? And while XV is bringing back all of the era protagonists, it is also bringing KROHNEN and Angel. So along with K', Kula, Maxima and Whip, we also have six ex-NESTS members. XV would had been the perfect moment to bring her in because despite her eccentric attitude and outfit suggest otherwise, she is a huge major victim of NESTS. Speaking of NESTS victims, if SNK is bringing characters back from the dead, now would be a perfect time to bring back Krizalid seeing that even though he is alive, he has a LOT on his plate. Betrayed by the organization he fought for, losing his "sister", among other things. And while I am not the biggest Nelson fan, he still continued the wasted potential with NESTS. Correct me if I am wrong, but apparently his metal arm and the accident that led to that was orchestrated by former NESTS agents. Maxima being interested in that arm in their interaction in XIV adds to that. Oh, unless we forget, HE is the reason why we got the King of Dinosaurs! (Also, I THINK he made Tizoc vanish, but that is completely unrelated). Point is, with his ending and ties to NESTS and the King of Dinosaurs, you would THINK we would see him. Don't get me wrong. I love XV's roster. Krohnen single-handedly trumps all of them. But that's the problem with XIV. They were so overly-ambitious with their roster that they set the bar a little too high.

Bruh I was literally thinking the same thing ShoryuGame lol. Despite the American Sports team being kind of a bit popular they weren't treated fairly as the other KOF characters and how when they are supposed to be in the roster, there place get stolen by another team like the rivals and orochi team. That's gonna be rough and I feel bad for them.

I really want to see Shingo, Shen woo, Nelson and the American sports team return in XV.

Kof 13: Kim’s pants are the best animated pants in anything ever Kof 14: Kim’s pants are stiff and lifeless, but they are there Kof 15: Kim’s pants are nowhere to be found Kof 16: Entire series is retconned so that Kim’s pants never existed in the first place

Orochi team's other movesets shouldn't be a dlc team imo. They should stop sticking Kensou with Chin too, having Kensou in different teams like the neo psycho soilders team in xi. And Kensou in xi is his best version and his best design.

Didn't you predict Yamazaki teaming with Billy and Geese?

You kinda spoke too soon for Geese, Billy and Yamazaki, but hey Wish come true right?

I was upset Kim wasnt in KOF 15 maybe he'll be in dlc or KOF 16 who knows.

The one that still hurts me is Shingo, it's one of the funniest and most lovable characters for me, it's a shame he didn't make it. PD: I also think that Rugal is in the game, for god sake it's impossible for him not to be in the game.

It only been a day, and this video aged well given the new DLC team reveals.😶

I'm very much convinced SNK is taking their sweet time to work on Kim's outfit animations just so it'll be acceptable to the fans. Kim's Immaculate Pants Animation must be restored!

After ShoryuGame made this video KOF15 announced DLC characters that are in this video.

Snk knew that 3d technology wasn't ready to animate the folds in kim pants, so instinstead of reflecting on themselvs, they skipped kim entirely 😂😂😂

I just hope KOF doesn't become like modern Mortal Kombat in terms of roster. I hate how starting to MK9, they always use the cast from MK2 in every game from NRS MK11 made me hate that trend

Assuming the leaks are accurate (and they've been on point so far), Geese is coming in later as DLC, which is part of the catch-22 of being a popular character.

I want momoko back just so that I can do the jail-bait-team of kula, yuri and momoko. Or make Rose bernstein a playable character. The Rose, Kula, Momoko Team would also be hilarious. Other additions to the Team would also be Hinako or Malin

Funny how, right after this video, Geese, Billy and Yamazaki were announced as a DLC team for KOF XV

Words said about Yamazaki I'd equally feel for Duck King. The actual greatest FG character of all time.

Kim not being in XV shocked me but I looked up info and I heard, according to the SNK wiki, one of the reasons why Kim isn't in the main roster of KOF XV (aside from his KOF 14 ending) was the passing of the real Kim Kaphwan. The real Kim Kaphwan, a businessman was the founder of Viccom, a company in Korea that, for a few years licensed SNK games. Dong Hwan and Jae Hoon are named after Kim's real life brother and nephew respectively. Figured this would be a nice little fact as to why Kim wasn't in the main roster. If Kim does come to KOF XV as DLC, he should team up with Kim Sue-il and May Lee forming Team Korea. Though I still wish May Lee can join Shingo and Marco to form Team Disciple.

The characters I miss the most are: -Kensou (He's always one of my mains and I'm really upset that they abandoned the Dragon Spirit subplot in favor of keeping him as comic relief. I'm aware he's not exactly the most popular character, though.) -Shingo (Now that team Orochi is back I wanted to play my favorite 98 team of Kensou, Shingo and Chris.) -Adelheid (I really like Adel and it's disappointing how little involvement he has with the story, especially considering he's the son of Rugal.) -Rock (While he does have his own storyline and series to an extent, seeing him interact with KOF characters and systems is something I had looked forward to.)

Yamazaki is *"The Joker"* of Fatal Fury/KOF series, he's has done a lot of Inhumane Things in the Lore.

SNK just dropped a trailer for DLC already! And well, let's just say that #3 and #4 in this video are already first in line for the Team Pass even after the game comes out!

I love the running fan theory that Takuma was missing from 14 onwards because he was so absurdly strong in 13, so they cut him to make sure people play other characters. Also, Takuma is one in the 14 Art of Fighting Ending, front and center, holding the championship belt, and doing most of the talking, despite not being playable.

I watched this video yesturday and woke up this morning to 2 of the characters you mentioned are now in the game. Looking forward to your next video

We all know the true missing piece of this puzzle of perfection; a character that we all can't live without and was the heart of the whole series... Zarina!!! But for real tho, pls bring back the wholesome, Tucan-loving Capoera Queen! 🙏

There's a side story manga with Shingo being the main character that's currently on going rn so i think that why he is absent for now

Yamazaki is definitely my favorite character of any fighting game. With any other character being dlc twice in a row would piss me off but I don't mind paying again for him

I love the fact that you put Yamazaki's face over the body of Ogami Sakura during the joke, and most of why the hell did it fit so well, I almost choked on my water when i saw that tbh, surely didn't expect Danganronpa reference here, but it made me chuckle. Keep up the great content man,

I agree it’s time for team American sports to make their long awaited return to kof

Good news, Geese, Yamazaki, and Billy are in KOF XV! They will appear as DLC.

Wanted to say Thank you for all your amazing videos,I'm 43,I always respected the kof series but never dwell into the storyline and glad I binged watch your videos and understand KOF has a really deep story and a excellent diverse of amazing characters

Geese Howard was busy dealing with the Tekken Tournament so couldn’t show up for the KoF one.

Yamazaki is in the second team with billy and Geese for dlc in Kof 15. Also there’s a mark of the wolves team for the first team dlc in Kof 15. Just giving aheads up

Your Top 4 and 3 choices aged like milk. They're DLC 2.

Geese, Billy and Yamazaki are a team in DLC now.

HAHAHAHA Snk just played you man! A day later my god.....

Also Shoryu Game, I really want also Mature and Vice in XV, but if they appeare as DLC team then the last member of Mature and Vice's team will be Iori's sister the perfect character to appeare and for her first debute. Yamazaki is impossible because they don't have much interaction to each other, Goenitz of course not because they betrayed him in 96 as for Rugal the same thing not gonna happen after they left him in 95. Mature, Vice and Iori's sister as the leader makes for them a perfect team and to be called team New Yagami.

Lol “our expectations were shattered, but not in a good way” 😂

Not having Kim in a KOF game is like not having Yoshimitsu in a Tekken game. This really did shattered my expectations

Your top 10 KOF related videos are my absolute favourite in all of youtube. Watchmojo should learn from you how to do these top 10 videos. I just love the way you explain everything related to KOF lore.

Well you got what you wanted on the next snk trailer shoryugame thank you for the content

Dang you just came out with this before the DLC announcement. Either way always good job on videos.

Heya Today SNK confirmed Rock, Gato, B.Jenet, Geese, Billy and Yamazaki as the 2 dlc teams Also they announced 2 other teams coming in summer and autumn!

This video aged poorly real quickly

This is aged blazing fast lmao Yamazaki

Welp, this didn't aged quite well... after just one day xD SNK just announced both Team Garou and team South Town as DLC, and there are 2 more teams confirmed. I'm starting to believe they want to pull a "Everyone is here" move xD

Geese and Yamazaki are confirmed as DLC along with Billy Kane.

yamazaki, geese and billy are DLC and with 2 additional teams coming down the line later on the year im sure we will see them

I want Vice, mature, and Rugal to be a dlc team in kof XV

As a relatively new fan the ones I really wanted in the base story was Yamazaki and Kim, the former for his gameplay, personality, and his potential interactions with Orochi team in the story. The later since I just love his gameplay, one of my first characters, design, and would've liked to see him alongside May Lee and Jhun Hoon my only concern though is unlike Yamazakii could see them not putting in Kim even in the DLC. Others I'm hoping to see be DLC: Adelheid Bernstein, Shingo, Vice and Mature, Rock Howard B. Jenet Goentiz, Rugal, and Geese (100% certain the last 2 will be DLC)

Might be a bummer to some people that characters like Geese and Yamazaki are DLC, but if they want to sell any DLC they are gonna need a good reason for people to buy it. For me, Yamazaki is enough of a reason to do that.

Welp, Geese, Billy and Yamazaki have now been announced as DLC. Guess we can scratch them off the list.

1:24 Well Rugal was one of the many souls that was inside Verse when he exploded in XIV so Rugal (as well as multiple other KOF villains) are officially back from the dead, though if or when they’ll show up is anyone’s guess.

The only thing that makes me worry about Shingo's chances is his currently running spin-off manga, King of Fighters Gaiden, where he deadass time travels to 11th century (I think?) Japan and experiences the events leading up to the Yasanagi clan doing the blood pact thing with the Hakkeshu, becoming the Yagami clan.

I think the exclusion of Kim in this game, is similar to the frustration SNK had towards Real Bout Fatal Fury, they had nothing left so they just stopped and made Garou instead, for Kim, his gimmick was rehabilitating Chang and Choi, which failed, and now he is basically directionless and serves no purpose to the story, so what I'd say is the best thing to do with him is to stop with the rehab fighting for justice dude because that's really childish, and just pair him with Jhun and May Lee as Team Korea, that should be alright

Funny how the day after you upload this geese, billy, and Yamazaki were announced as dlc

18:34 For some reason seeing Kim wearing shorts is weirder than seeing Yamazaki wearing a skirt 😆🤣😂 Thanks for the video Shoryugame. I hope some Maximum Impact characters appear as DLC Also, I didn't know SNK no longer owns Mui Mui 😢 That's truly shame.

SNK heard you this morning... 🤗

They pretty much the full history of snk characters to choose from to put into the game. I just hope Rugal will be in the game.

KOF XV is not out and I am missing Sylvie Paula Paula already 😢😭😭 There were many XIV characters who I miss, Sylvie, Nakoruru, Mui Mui, Love Heart, Zarina, Najd, Nelson and even Xanadu. My biggest complain about the initial roster of KOF XV is how it feels more like a Dream Match than the second chapter of a saga.

You nailed why kim isn’t in KOF; modern technology just hasn’t caught up with those pants

Boy, did this video get outdated in a hurry.

To be honest, all of the characters have a lot of potential to be in the lore; but sadly, SNK really likes to pump out characters only to be benched in the sidelines It's like that one kid where he makes characters in his stories only to make 1 or 2 cameos or main entries then just forgotten overall. And, a lot of people might bring Kim back as a DLC because of the high demand for him (even though his canonical absence is because of Luong's suggestion of Gang-il training Kim even more) even though there are leaks that even in DLC he would be absent. (And please hope to god they arent true)

I would like to see Kim Kaphwan teaming with Yamazaki and Shingo with everyone wearing a Tae Kwon do suit...

I wish Duck King would make another playable appearance. He's my favorite Fatal Fury character and I'd love to see how his design would translate into 3D

Loving the comment of 'This aged poorly' after 24hours for the DLC character anouncement 🤣🤣

I never got a chance to play '98, but I have seen footage of the American Sports Team by pros, especially Brian Battler. I would love to have a chance to play these guys should the opportunity present itself as DLC for KOF15.