Liko debuted in The Pendant That Starts It All: Part One. She enrolled in the Indigo Academy at the Kanto region, where she formed a friendship with her roommate Ann and received her partner Pokémon, a Sprigatito. During the next few days, Liko worked hard to strengthen her bond with Sprigatito by learning more about it and make it listen to her instructions in battle, but to little avail. One day, a young man named Amethio introduced himself to her, supposedly as her grandmother's representativ