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Korrina's Lucario コルニのルカリオ Corni's Lucario

Korrina's Lucario

Debuts in XY030 Caught at Kalos Evolves in Prior to XY030 Gender Male* Ability Steadfast* Adaptability* Current location With Korrina

→ This Pokémon spent an unknown number of episodes as Riolu.

Voice actor Japanese English As Riolu Unknown As Lucario Kiyotaka Furushima

Korrina's Lucario (Japanese: コルニのルカリオ Corni's Lucario) is the first Pokémon that Korrina is shown to have. It tends to walk around outside of its Poké Ball.

History

As a Riolu

Lucario is Korrina's first and only known Pokémon. They have been together ever since Korrina was a child and Lucario was a Riolu. According to Korrina, they have grown so close together that she considers the two of them soul mates.

Lucario's Lucarionite

Lucario debuted alongside its Trainer in XY030. It was first used to battle Ash's Pikachu as a part of a challenge to get 100 straight victories in a row. Although Pikachu fought hard, Lucario defeats it without taking a single hit, giving Korrina and Lucario their 99th victory. After the battle ended, Lucario and Korrina had lunch with Ash and his friends, where Korrina reveals her history with Mega Evolution as the Gym Leader of the Shalour Gym. They are interrupted by Team Rocket, who capture Lucario and Pikachu in a box whilst disguised as Mega Evolution appraisers and take them away in their balloon. Pikachu and Lucario repeatedly attempt to break out of the box with their attacks, but only end up exhausting themselves. Using her bond with Lucario, Korrina leads Ash and his friends to where Lucario and Pikachu are being taken to. They arrive just as Lucario and Pikachu free themselves from the box with a combination of Electro Ball and Power-Up Punch.

As a Mega Lucario

Team Rocket refuses to back down and they challenge Ash and Korrina to a battle. Together, Lucario and Pikachu defeat Team Rocket and send them blasting off, giving Korrina and Lucario their 100th successive victory. Ash and his friends then decide to travel with Korrina and Lucario to Geosenge Town so that they can see Lucario's Mega-Evolved state once they obtain the Lucarionite.

In XY031, Ash, his friends, and Korrina arrive in Geosenge Town to obtain the Lucarionite. They travel to a cave where the stone is rumored to be held, only to be attacked by a Blaziken guarding the stone. Lucario battled Blaziken in order to obtain the Lucarionite, but it quickly begins losing due to Blaziken's strength and type advantage. After some encouragement from Ash, Korrina and Lucario regain their resolve, allowing them to immobilize Blaziken. Before the final blow could be struck, Gurkinn appears, revealing himself to be Blaziken's Trainer, and admits defeat. Gurkinn explains that he set the battle up as a final trial for Korrina and Lucario and tells them that they have succeeded in passing it. Later, with the Lucarionite in hand, Korrina has Lucario Mega Evolve for the first time.

Losing control of its Mega-Evolved state

After becoming Mega Lucario, Korrina and Ash decide to have another battle to test out Lucario's new strength. Due to a lack of control over its transformation, Lucario eventually loses control of its new power and attacks Pikachu in a violent frenzy. Ash steps in to protect Pikachu from further harm, but Lucario continues attacking, only to be stopped by Gurkinn's Lucario. Lucario eventually faints from overexertion and is taken to the Pokémon Center to get healed. Once healed, Korrina outfits Lucario with an armband created by Makita with the Lucarionite embedded inside.

Soon after, Korrina and Gurkinn face each other in a battle with their Mega Lucario. Gurkinn's Lucario proves to be much more skilled with its Mega Evolution and easily blocks Korrina's Lucario's attacks with its control over Aura. Lucario eventually goes berserk again, but is still easily defeated by Gurkinn's Lucario and returns to normal. Gurkinn berates Korrina and Lucario for their lack of control and orders them to travel to the Must Mountains in order to receive special training from a Mega Evolution specialist living there. Korrina obeys and sets off to the Must Mountains along with Ash and his friends.

In XY033, the group travels to a cave, but a Team Rocket plan causes them to get separated from each other. Lucario is stuck with Ash, Serena, Bonnie, and Dedenne while Korrina is stuck with Clemont and Pikachu. After a day of searching for each other, Lucario's group eventually finds Korrina, Clemont, and Pikachu under the attack of Team Rocket. Due to the machines Team Rocket used to power up their Pokémon, Lucario and the others suggest Korrina use Mega Evolution to make Lucario strong enough to win. Although reluctant due to the risk of Lucario going out of control again, Korrina Mega Evolves Lucario, giving it the power to easily take down Team Rocket's Pokémon. Lucario begins to lose control of its Mega Evolution again, causing it to go on a rampage on Ash's side. The sound of Korrina's voice allows Lucario to control its Mega-Evolved state, but once Lucario sends Team Rocket blasting off, it immediately goes out of control again. Lucario then turns back to normal as it could no longer handle the strain of Mega Evolution again.

In XY034, the group arrives at the Must Mountains. There, they meet Maple, the Mega Evolution specialist that Gurkinn had told them about earlier. To test their prowess, Maple and her Mega Mawile face Korrina and Mega Lucario in battle. Maple's Mawile proves to be much stronger and easily dodges all of Lucario's attacks. When Lucario goes berserk once more, Maple has Mawile knock Lucario out to revert it to its normal form. Devastated, Korrina and Lucario request special training from Maple, but are told to do flower arranging instead. After several more days of flower arranging, Korrina begins to get tired of it and wonders when their training will finally start. Maple approaches the two and explains that the flower arranging was actually the training all along, as was designed to improve Korrina and Lucario's bond with each other.

Korrina and Lucario

The talk is interrupted by an attack by Team Rocket, who have captured Pikachu and Mawile. Korrina Mega Evolves Lucario, but Team Rocket uses strategy to prevent it from getting any moves in. Lucario eventually loses control once again but is still unable to take down Team Rocket. Using the advice Maple gave her, Korrina steps in and reminds Lucario about what their training was for. This allows Lucario to finally gain control of its Mega Evolution. Lucario frees Pikachu and Mawile from their cages and teams up with them to defeat Team Rocket. Lucario is revealed to have learned Aura Sphere as well and uses its new move to send Team Rocket blasting off. The next day, Korrina and Lucario say their goodbyes to Ash and his friends and looks forward to their upcoming Gym challenge later.

Moves used

As a Lucario

Using Power-Up Punch	Move First Used In Swords Dance XY030 Bone Rush XY030 Power-Up Punch XY030 Metal Sound XY031
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

As a Mega Lucario

Using Aura Sphere	Move First Used In Bone Rush XY032 Power-Up Punch XY032 Aura Sphere XY034
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

In the games

Pokémon X and Y

Korrina initially has two Lucario. One of them approaches the player on Route 5 after he takes a liking to the player's Aura. Korrina uses both of them to battle the player at Geosenge Town. Both of them later appear on top of the Tower of Mastery alongside their Trainer, with the Lucario that took a liking to the player temporarily joins their team for the battle. After being defeated, Korrina gives this Lucario to the player. Korrina's other Lucario is later used on her Battle Chateau team after the player defeats the Elite Four.

First battle		Mega Evolution battle
Types: Fighting Steel Ability: Steadfast Held item: None Lucario♂ Lv.25 Swords Dance Normal Status   --       Power-Up Punch Fighting Physical   --       Metal Sound Steel Status   --       Feint Normal Physical   --	Types: Fighting Steel Ability: Steadfast Held item: None Lucario♂ Lv.25 Swords Dance Normal Status   --       Power-Up Punch Fighting Physical   --       Metal Sound Steel Status   --       Feint Normal Physical   --	Types: Fighting Steel Ability: Steadfast Held item: Lucarionite Lucario♂ Lv.32 Swords Dance Normal Status   --       Power-Up Punch Fighting Physical   --       Metal Sound Steel Status   --       Bone Rush Ground Physical   --
Battle Chateau
No Writ issued	Blue Writ of Challenge	Writ of Challenge
Types: Fighting Steel Ability: Steadfast Held item: Lucarionite Lucario♂ Lv.50 Aura Sphere Fighting Special   --       Dragon Pulse Dragon Special   --       Extreme Speed Normal Physical   --       Dark Pulse Dark Special   --	Types: Fighting Steel Ability: Steadfast Held item: Lucarionite Lucario♂ Lv.40 Bone Rush Ground Physical   --       Metal Sound Steel Status   --       Me First Normal Status   --       Quick Guard Fighting Status   --	Types: Fighting Steel Ability: Steadfast Held item: Lucarionite Lucario♂ Lv.55 Heal Pulse Psychic Status   --       Close Combat Fighting Physical   --       Calm Mind Psychic Status   --       Aura Sphere Fighting Special   --
Battle Chateau
Red Writ of Challenge	Black Writ of Challenge	Given to the player
Types: Fighting Steel Ability: Steadfast Held item: Lucarionite Lucario♂ Lv.60 Heal Pulse Psychic Status   --       Close Combat Fighting Physical   --       Dragon Pulse Dragon Special   --       Calm Mind Psychic Status   --	Types: Fighting Steel Ability: Steadfast Held item: Lucarionite Lucario♂ Lv.70 Heal Pulse Psychic Status   --       Close Combat Fighting Physical   --       Dragon Pulse Dragon Special   --       Extreme Speed Normal Physical   --	Types: Fighting Steel Ability: Steadfast Held item: Lucarionite Lucario♂ Lv.32* Swords Dance Normal Status   --       Power-Up Punch Fighting Physical   --       Metal Sound Steel Status   --       Bone Rush Ground Physical   --

In the manga

In the Pokémon Adventures manga

As a Lucario

As a Mega Lucario

Lucario first debuts in PAXY06, where Korrina sends it out to help X retrieve his stolen Kangaskhanite from Celosia. Upon revealing herself, Korrina has Lucario Mega Evolve into Mega Lucario and sends it off to attack Celosia's Aegislash. With its Aura, Lucario prevented Celosia's Aegislash from controlling X and his friends' minds. Lucario distracts Aegislash long enough for the Kangaskhanite to be retrieved, which allows X to Mega Evolve Kogaru into Mega Kangaskhan. Together with Garu and Kogaru, Lucario defeats Aegislash, which forces Celosia to escape as she knows she cannot defeat two Mega-Evolved Pokémon.

At the Tower of Mastery, Lucario Mega Evolves to battle a Trevenant that began attacking the place. Korrina quickly realizes that the Trevenant is not wild, but its Trainer is not in the area, meaning that the Trevenant was only a distraction. The Trainer is revealed to be Essentia, who kept Korrina away so that she could interrogate Gurkinn about the secrets of Mega Evolution. Once Korrina goes down to help her grandfather, Lucario teams up with Gurkinn's Mega Heracross to defeat Essentia. Essentia attempts to take the tower by covering it in Trevenant's roots, but Gurkinn decides to destroy the tower to make sure the secrets of Mega Evolution do not fall into the hands of Team Flare. Korrina and Gurkin have Lucario and Heracross activate the Tower of Mastery's self destruction switch by destroying the Mega Lucario statue, causing the tower to collapse in on itself.

Moves used

As Mega Lucario

Using Power-Up Punch	Move First Used In Power-Up Punch PAXY07 Aura Sphere X & Y chapter
A † shows that the move was used recently, unless all moves fit this case or there are fewer than five known moves.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Riolu and Lucario.

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