I'm brand new to KoF and am looking at the following characters:
Terry
Shen
Iori Claw
Kyo
Robert
would anyone have any recommendations as to what the best team combinations of them would be, and which should be the three i spend the most time working on? Like I said, I'm new to KoF, but i've read through all the tutorial pages on this site, and watched the intro to KoF video (which was very well done!), so I have a simplistic understanding of the game mechanics, but not the characters and their movesets.
First off, welcome to DreamCancel enterix. I think I recognize that name from the SRK forums; regardless, thanks for joining us, and hope your loving 13 so far. And I'm guessing the "intro to KoF" was Dandy J's "SF to KoF video," which was excellent, so good start.
I've just barely scratched the surface with Terry and mainly work with other characters now, but I'm going to suggest that characters like Kyo and Robert work as batteries (1st up) cause of their decent meter builds and not having to rely on meter usage so much. EX Iori works in almost any position well as his normals and combos are very good. Terry might be best in the middle. He can do damage pretty well, but a little like Leona, it's best with meter. Shen is usually an anchor when he's on a team, and with good reason. Lots of players who know how to use him and have full meter can end up with ToD HD combos. Shen is pretty much the Ken of this game, so you'll be seeing a lot of him probably.
But from someone who hasn't full embraced team/meter management yet, I will say work on the basics and intermediate stuff for all your characters; make sure you can KO a character with any character. I've seen a few upsets with what looked like "mis-management".