In The King of Fighters XV, the seal is once again being interfered with, making the three team up again to investigate. During the events of The King of Fighters XIV, Iori travels with Kyo and Chizuru to Hungary to locate the weakened body of Orochi that escaped the seal and defeating him to create another seal. Ash is later wiped from history to save the world from his evil ancestors in The King of Fighters XIII, inadvertantly returning everyone to their former selves and Iori getting his purple flames back. This leaves Iori without his purple flames and forces him to adopt an entirely new fighting style and moveset. Ash manages to take Chizuru's powers and later Iori's in The King of Fighters XI. During the investigation, they discover that newcomer Ash Crimson is attempting to take all of Orochi's power. In The King of Fighters 2003, Chizuru contacts Kyo and Iori about suspicious activities around the Orochi sealed they created together. in The King of Fighters 2001, Iori returns to the starting roster after being invited by his acquaintance Seth and taking it as an opportunity to kill Kyo. ![]() Iori does appear as a secret boss character and an assistant to others. During this game, he eventually teams up with Kyo and Chizuru to confront a freed Orochi and seal him once again.Īfter this encounter, Iori mostly stays in the background from The King of Fighters '98 to The King of Fighters 2000 comprised as the NESTS saga, most notably fighting against NESTS agents tasked with killing Kyo so he can have his chance to kill him. His hobby as a bassist is also acknowledged in the King of Fighters canon, and plays part in the motivations of a rival band, CYS, who form the New Faces Team in The King of Fighters '97 as the game's major antagonists. Iori also features in his own drama CD and as a member in SNK's own character image band, in which he plays the bass guitar. Like his ancestors, due to the pact with the Orochi, Iori is susceptible to the Riot of the Blood which, when activated, drives him into a feral and blood-thirsty, but near-irrational state. ![]() Using pyrokinesis to fight, Iori joins the series in The King of Fighters '95 as one of the members of the Rival Team, along with Geese Howard's right-hand Billy Kane and Eiji Kisaragi, a ninja who is out to defeat the Kyokugen martial arts school. Over the centuries, this envy turned into outright hatred, with Iori constantly obsessing over killing Kyo in duel. The rival of Kyo Kusanagi, Iori Yagami's family descends from the Yasakani, one of the three families who, along with the Kusanagi and the Yata (of which the organizer of the 1996 King of Fighters tournament, Chizuru Kagura, is a descendant), sealed Orochi away 1,800 years ago, although they later signed a blood pact with the deity out of envy for the Kusanagi clan, thus becoming the Yagami clan, whose purple flames became the sign of their pact. Iori Yagami fighting Kim Kaphwan in The King of Fighters '95.
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