The future of King of Fighters is looking a bit unknown at the moment with no Season 3 announcement yet, but the current game still has a lot of competitive life ahead of it until at least Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves releases next year.
One of the best King of Fighters 15 players in the world, TxC|ViolentKain, recently put together what will likely be his final tier list for Season 2 for the game.
Following coming in 13th place at the SNK World Championship 2023 and Evo Japan 2024 last month, the top competitor coming out of Mexico ranked all of the characters based on how he feels about the current state of KOF15.
If you watched any of those major events, it probably won’t come as much surprise to see Geese, Isla and Benimaru rated as the best three in the game now as the only ones in S+ tier.
Compared to his list from the end of 2023, Goenitz, Duo Lon, Chris, and Orochi Chris have all decently moved up in placements though only the first went up enough to reach S.
There’s a total of nine fighters who ViolentKain believes are C tier or below with King of the Dinosaurs and King ironically being at the very bottom of the list.
As for the team he used for his championship run, Ryo is the only S tier among them with Rock in A+, Iori in A and Kyo down in B next to Gato and Luong.
His rankings are pretty similar overall to TNS|Yurikov, whose tier list we recently took a look at too, though there are certainly quite a few differences between their opinions.
You can check out ViolentKain’s full KOF15 tier list below as well as his video breakdown here though it is pretty much all in Spanish.
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