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  1. rolls to a neat stop, one skate turned sideways Hey! Caught me between laps at the Shalour Gym. See that line on the floor? Try crossing it without rushing. Every good battle starts with balance, not a flashy attack. Want to give it a shot?

Korrina — Pokémon Character Profile

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Korrinaコルニ

Shalour City Gym Leader and Mega Evolution successor in Pokémon X and Y

Korrina is Shalour City's Fighting-type Gym Leader in Pokémon X and Y, set in the Kalos region. She skates as confidently as she battles, meeting the player on the road before they ever reach her roller-skating Gym. Her grandfather, Gurkinn, is the Mega Evolution guru, and Korrina is his successor.

That responsibility—and her bond with two Lucario—makes her more than an ordinary Gym opponent: she helps introduce one of Kalos's defining battle mechanics.

Biography

The skater of Shalour City

Korrina is both a Fighting-type Gym Leader and an enthusiastic roller skater. She trains to draw out her Pokémon's strength, and the Gym she leads in the seaside city of Shalour is built around movement on skates. The city's Tower of Mastery, where her grandfather Gurkinn teaches about Mega Evolution, connects her work as a Gym Leader with her role as his successor.

Meeting a Trainer on the road

The player first meets Korrina on Route 5, where one of her Lucario notices the player's aura and approaches. She introduces herself as Shalour's Gym Leader, then challenges the player in Geosenge Town with both of her Lucario. These meetings make her a recurring presence before the player even enters her Gym.

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A Gym built around motion

Shalour Gym turns the approach to its Leader into a skating challenge: defeating Trainers opens a route across the rink toward Korrina. Her Gym team consists of Mienfoo, Machoke, and Hawlucha, rather than the Lucario seen in her earlier battles. A challenger who defeats her receives the Rumble Badge and TM98, Power-Up Punch.

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Personality and Motivations

Korrina is upbeat, competitive, and quick to engage with a challenger. She treats both skating and Pokémon training as active skills to improve, and she wants to bring out more of her Pokémon's potential rather than settle for the strength they already have. Her playful energy does not keep her from taking a serious battle seriously.

Her treatment of Lucario reveals a generous side to that competitive spirit: she recognizes the Pokémon's interest in another Trainer and allows that bond to matter. Although her family entrusts her with a tradition of Mega Evolution, she still approaches it as something to learn through training, responsibility, and experience.

Appearance

In Pokémon X and Y, Korrina has fair skin, blue-gray eyes, and long, light-blonde hair gathered into a voluminous high ponytail. Her sporty outfit combines a white-and-red sleeveless dress with black fitted shorts, red accents, and a white helmet with red markings. She wears roller-skating boots and a glove bearing the Key Stone she uses for Mega Evolution.

Quick facts

Home region
Kalos
Hometown
Shalour City
Gym specialty
Fighting-type Pokémon
Gym Badge
Rumble Badge
Mega Evolution role
Successor
Signature partner
Lucario
Pastime
Roller skating
Game debut
Pokémon X and Pokémon Y (2013)

Abilities

Fighting-type Pokémon training

As Shalour’s Gym Leader, Korrina battles using Fighting-type specialists, including Mienfoo, Machoke, and Hawlucha in her Gym challenge.

Limitations: A Fighting-type-focused roster must still account for unfavorable matchups, including opposing Flying- and Psychic-type attacks.

Roller-skating agility

Korrina trains and moves on roller skates, and the design of her Gym reflects the control, speed, and balance associated with that skill.

Mega Evolution with Lucario

Korrina uses a Key Stone set in her Mega Glove to Mega Evolve Lucario. She demonstrates the mechanic in a battle at the Tower of Mastery, where both participating Lucario hold Lucarionite. Mega Evolution requires the Trainer's Key Stone and a compatible Pokémon holding its corresponding Mega Stone.

Limitations: Mega Evolution is a battle transformation with specific requirements, not an unrestricted permanent evolution.

Relationships

Gurkinn

Grandfather and Mega Evolution mentor

Gurkinn, called the Mega Evolution guru, is Korrina’s grandfather. Their shared connection to the Tower of Mastery places her work as a Gym Leader within a family tradition of studying Mega Evolution.

Lucario

Pokémon partner

Lucario is Korrina’s best-known Pokémon partner. She trains two Lucario in Pokémon X and Y; one takes a particular interest in the player during their first meeting.

Interesting facts

Korrina’s Shalour Gym battle team does not include Lucario, despite her especially strong association with that Pokémon.

It makes the story encounters with her Lucario distinct from the Fighting-type roster used in the official Gym challenge.

An in-game television program, Gym Freaks, reports that Korrina has worked at the PR Video Studio and enjoys costume-like clothing.

It gives Shalour's Gym Leader a surprising public-facing activity beyond skating and Pokémon battles.

Korrina is the only Kalos Gym Leader to use Mega Evolution in Pokémon X and Y.

She demonstrates Mega Evolution outside the standard Gym battle, making the mechanic a separate story encounter rather than another way to earn her Badge.

Korrina appears as a Marchioness in Battle Chateau rematches once the player has reached the appropriate rank.

This optional challenge provides an additional way to meet her in Pokémon X and Y outside the main Gym storyline.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Korrina in Pokémon?

Korrina is the Fighting-type Gym Leader of Shalour City in Kalos and a successor to a family tradition of Mega Evolution.

Which Pokémon game first features Korrina?

She first appears in Pokémon X and Pokémon Y, released in 2013.

What Pokémon does Korrina use in her Gym battle?

Her Pokémon X and Y Gym team consists of Mienfoo, Machoke, and Hawlucha; Lucario features in separate story battles.

What Badge does Korrina give?

Challengers who defeat her at the Shalour Gym receive the Rumble Badge and TM98, Power-Up Punch.

Is Korrina related to Gurkinn?

Yes. Gurkinn, the Mega Evolution guru associated with Shalour’s Tower of Mastery, is her grandfather.

Does Korrina appear in the Pokémon anime?

Yes. Korrina also appears in Pokémon the Series. Her animated story is a separate adaptation continuity; the biography here follows the main-series games.

Major story spoilers below.

The Mega Ring and the choice of Lucario

At Shalour's Tower of Mastery, the player first battles Serena or Calem for the chance to receive a Mega Ring. After the player defeats Korrina at her Gym, she invites them to the tower's top floor and gives them that ring. One of her Lucario, already interested in the player's aura, temporarily joins the player for a one-on-one Mega Evolution battle against her other Lucario. The player can keep that Lucario afterward, along with its Lucarionite. Korrina's lesson thus involves entrusting a promising Trainer with one of her own partners.

A later link to AZ in Pokémon Legends: Z-A

After the main story of Pokémon Legends: Z-A, the player discovers a letter and a Lucario left by AZ in a room at Hotel Z. The letter explains that Korrina previously gave AZ the Lucario because she wanted him to be safe; the Pokémon also lists Korrina as its Original Trainer. AZ has died by the time the player receives this gift. This post-credits connection precedes Korrina's on-screen return in Mega Dimension.

Joining the Hyperspace Lumiose investigation

In the Mega Dimension expansion, Corbeau asks Korrina to help Team MZ investigate distortions around Lumiose City. After a battle with the player, she joins the investigation and accompanies the player and Urbain or Taunie into Hyperspace Lumiose. They take on dangerous Rogue Mega-Evolved Pokémon while the distortions increasingly threaten the city. Her return also gives her a more expansive goal: becoming skilled with every form of Mega Evolution, not just Lucario's.

A changed look and a Lucario challenge

Mega Dimension gives Korrina a new look, including longer hair arranged in a ring-like style and an outfit with bright, contrasting colors. She carries several Mega Stones and retains a Key Stone on her glove. In the optional side mission Ultra-Hardcore Lucario Showdown!, she battles the player with a level-100 Lucario capable of becoming Mega Lucario Z; the player must bring just one Lucario to accept the challenge. These encounters belong to her later appearance, not her original Shalour Gym battle.

The threat behind the distortions

The group eventually learns that Darkrai is the Pokémon sustaining Hyperspace Lumiose. As part of Operation Mega Donut, Korrina joins the player and Urbain or Taunie in Hyperspace Newmoon Nightmare, where they confront and capture Rogue Mega Darkrai. Its capture halts the expansion of Hyperspace Lumiose, although the other dimension continues to exist. Korrina shares the work and danger with the team rather than defeating Darkrai alone.

Rayquaza and the later adventure

Korrina remains involved when Team MZ turns to Ansha's hope of finding Rayquaza for her mother. The investigation leads the group into battles with Rogue Primal Groudon and Rogue Primal Kyogre, then to Hyperspace Sky Pillar. There the player and allies capture Rogue Mega Rayquaza. Ansha ultimately asks the player to look after it until she is old enough to become a Trainer herself. Korrina's last major story involvement in the expansion is as one of the companions helping bring that adventure to its conclusion.

Additional story facts

In Pokémon Legends: Z-A, the Lucario obtained through AZ’s post-credits gift retains Korrina as its Original Trainer.

This in-game identifier provides a tangible connection between the Lucario’s history and Korrina’s earlier decision to help AZ.

In optional post-expansion Infinite Z-A Royale rematches, Korrina can Mega Evolve every Pokémon on her team during a single battle.

The mechanics make her stated ambition to master many different Mega Evolutions visible in battle, far beyond the two-Lucario demonstration of Pokémon X and Y.

Spoiler questions

Does Korrina give the player a Lucario in Pokémon X and Y?

Yes. After the Tower of Mastery Mega Evolution battle, the player can keep the Lucario that temporarily fought on their side, along with its Lucarionite.

Does Korrina return in Pokémon Legends: Z-A?

Yes. She is referenced in the base game’s post-credits content and appears in the Mega Dimension DLC, where she joins Team MZ’s investigation of Hyperspace Lumiose.

What happens to Korrina in Mega Dimension?

She joins Team MZ against the Rogue Mega Pokémon of Hyperspace Lumiose, helps confront Darkrai, and accompanies the group during the subsequent investigation involving Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza.

What is Korrina’s connection to AZ?

An AZ letter explains that she gave him a Lucario for protection before the events of Pokémon Legends: Z-A. The player later receives that Lucario.

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Tags

  • Pokémon X and Y
  • Kalos and Shalour City
  • Fighting-type Gym Leader
  • Lucario
  • Mega Evolution
  • Roller skating
  • Rumble Badge
  • Appearance and personality