Liko — Pokémon Horizons Character Profile

During the first attacks by the Explorers, Liko’s pendant briefly takes the form of an unfamiliar Pokémon and protects her. The Pokémon is eventually identified as Terapagos, linking the keepsake from Diana to the ancient Trainer Lucius, the Six Heroes, and the search for Laqua. The object that first put Liko in danger is also a living part of the mystery she wants to understand.

Spinel later steals the pendant while leaving Liko disoriented and unable to remember important parts of her journey. Dot turns to Iono for help locating her. Once Liko regains her memories, she discovers that the pendant is gone, and her friends work together to recover it. This is one of her earliest experiences of how vulnerable the mystery can make her—and how much she relies on the people traveling with her.

Liko encounters Hatenna in the Galar Mine, where the sensitive Pokémon is distressed by the emotions of those around it. Her effort to help begins a second partnership, one in which attending to feelings is not just Liko’s habit but central to the Pokémon’s behavior.

During the continuing search for the black Rayquaza, Sprigatito evolves into Floragato. The change marks a new stage for a partnership that started with Liko feeling uncertain about receiving a familiar Pokémon from Paldea; she now depends on that same partner in increasingly demanding battles. During the later Tera Training period, Hatenna evolves into Hattrem as well, bringing a new dimension to the Pokémon’s ability to support others.

At Naranja Academy, Liko trains alongside Roy and Dot and faces Gym Leaders whose tests demand more than determination. After passing her early test, she struggles with later challenges and fails her assessment with Grusha. The setback forces her to confront the gap between caring for her Pokémon and giving confident commands under pressure; she continues training instead of withdrawing.

When Spinel’s attack leaves Liko and Amethio trapped in a cave, the two work with their Pokémon to stay warm and find a way out. Their conversation about their respective goals exposes more common ground than either had expected from their earlier confrontations. This does not excuse the Explorers’ pursuit of Liko, but it helps explain why their relationship cannot be reduced to a permanent, uncomplicated rivalry.

After the cave encounter, Liko returns to the academy’s Tera Training competitions. She earns another chance to prove herself after helping defend the academy, then reaches the student tournament match against Roy. Her Floragato and Hattrem battle against Roy’s Pokémon, but she ultimately loses. Their rivalry remains friendly, and the result gives Liko a clearer measure of how far she has come and what she still needs to practice.

At the Crystal Pool, Liko and her companions meet Rystal and discover that she was Terapagos’s original Trainer. Rystal’s baby is named Layla—the same name as Diana’s mother—and Lucius is Layla’s father. This reveals that both Rystal and Lucius are Liko’s great-great-grandparents. Her connection to the ancient journey is not merely the result of inheriting a pendant; it is part of her family history.

Rystal had called Terapagos “Pagogo.” As Liko grows closer to the Pokémon, she takes up that affectionate name. The reunion at the Crystal Pool also reframes the stories about Lucius and the Six Heroes: Liko is trying to understand events in which her own ancestors took part.

The Rising Volt Tacklers eventually reach Laqua, where Laquium and the Explorers’ plans put Pokémon and people at risk. During the confrontation involving Gibeon’s Zygarde, Floragato evolves into Meowscarada. Liko and her partners have become much stronger, but the journey does not end with a simple victory: the crisis fractures the Tacklers’ adventures, and their group does not continue traveling together immediately afterward.

One year later, Liko is living at Indigo Academy again. She has not told Ann the full truth about her time as a Rising Volt Tackler, and Terapagos has remained inside its Poké Ball. Roy’s return—and the continuing danger from Laquium—push her to leave the uncertainty of school life behind and help bring the scattered crew back together.

The renewed search introduces Liko to Charcadet, a Pokémon she has encountered before and eventually catches. Diana supplies the Auspicious Armor that enables Charcadet to evolve into Armarouge during the effort to infiltrate the Explorers’ headquarters, where Liko and Amethio cooperate. Her team grows without replacing the Pokémon whose bonds shaped her earliest adventures.

Hattrem later evolves into Hatterene after Liko comes to understand how much happiness it takes in helping others. By the end of the Laquium conflict, Liko’s regular evolved partners include Meowscarada, Hatterene, and Armarouge. Their changes are not interchangeable power upgrades; each comes out of a distinct relationship and set of experiences.

When Strong Spheres spread Laquium’s influence, Liko and her allies prepare to destroy the threat at its source. Trainers representing all eighteen Tera Types assemble, and Terapagos’s Stellar Form helps their Pokémon confront the Laquium Core. Spinel’s intervention causes the Core to awaken, bringing the Explorers and the Tacklers into the same climactic struggle. The fight ends the Laquium threat, but winning requires more than a single battle command from Liko.

Afterward, Liko parts with Pagogo so that it can stay in Laqua and help protect the place to which it is deeply connected. The separation is an important cost of resolving the mystery that began with her grandmother’s pendant. It closes a long chapter of Liko’s journey, not her entire story.

After the crisis, Friede invites the group to investigate new Pokémon in the field, and the Brave Olivine resumes traveling. Navie and her Ditto become new companions. Liko takes part in a Pokémon Contest, encounters Miraidon while Roy meets Koraidon, and journeys to Kitakami. Later, the group faces a threat involving the Treasures of Ruin during the preparations for a school festival in Paldea. Each is a released part of the ongoing series, rather than an epilogue imagined for her.

In the Japanese episode broadcast on November 6, 2026, Liko and her companions visit a lake with Tatsugiri and meet a frightened Dondozo. The episode synopsis describes trouble involving a Veluza, but does not establish a permanent change to Liko’s team or a final resolution to her adventures. Her story remains ongoing.