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The list will be a bit biased as every member of CafeID seems to have Kim in their team for obvious reason lol.

Perhaps a little, but less than you might think.  Gutts didn't use Kim at all (that I saw), so Cafe ID only comprised about half the Kims in the top 32.  Remember folks like Reynald, Zero Black, Poongko, and Sange Tencho...  His place on the list is legitimate.

It's not a "do this and win" tactic at all, but it's an interesting trend to notice.  It's a statistical anomaly that actually holds true more than you'd think.

KoF is an exceptionally balanced game, and one that I'm rapidly absolutely falling in love with.  Tier lists tend to be pretty all over the place, but my buddy Beboped and I (mostly him, really) came up with a list of A tier characters based on tournament showings that seems to hold water really really well.

In a nutshell, here's how it works:  There is a list of characters (somewhere around 1/3rd of the cast) that make up 2 of the 3 slots in every competitive team.  In other words, every top-8 team @ EVO, and all but 2.5 of the top 32 was structured like this, in some order: List Char/List Char/Wildcard.  At least while on-stream

THE LIST (In no real order)
Hwa Jai
Benimaru
Kyo
Shen
Kim
Iori
EX Iori
Billy
Mr Karate

For the record, the outliers are Fox, Luis Cha, and Mr KoF's second team when he ran it back against Xian.

There's a KoF scene in Salem, you say?

Innnnnnnteresting...

A buddy and I are working really hard to both level up our own games and get a community going in Corvallis, but sadly - being poor college students - regular trips to Portland aren't really feasible, however Salem might be possible...