I don't think that necessarily guarantees that she'll have a battle active goal though. Serena and the SM girls would still battle on occasion since that's kind of a big part of the franchise. That doesn't mean that they'd be considered battle active.
And she's the main character of that franchise's show. She's a battler.
There’s actually a third option they could have gone with: Manzana Academy, which is an option for an interview in-game.
Now that I think about it, this is likely the reason we start in Kanto in the first place: to have the two protagonists be able to meet each other!
I really wish they would have named the school after a fruit to keep up the Gen 9 theme naming for the revealed schools. Besides, what does quartz have anything to do with Kanto anyhow? It just sounds like some random name unless they plan on having the boarding school take place in Pewter City (in which case Brock better be the health instructor).
The preview is likely just made of scenes from the first couple of eps, so that could be from eps two or three.
There just generally seems to be some sort of mineral naming theme going on. With all the evil team (For the lack of a better term) members having names relating to them.
We still don't know that yet. She is the main character, but I don't think that guarantees that she's going to be a battler or have a battle active goal. They have been avoiding battle active female leads for over a decade, so I'm quite skeptical about them suddenly changing that with Liko.
Doesn’t that just apply to the antagonist group though? I can’t see just repeating the theme…
Riko is going to be Satoshi's replacement, it's wrong to compare her to the previous secondary characters just because she's happened to be a girl.
I wouldn't call Serena or even the SM girls supporting characters though. They didn't have the same role as Ash, but I think saying that they were supporting characters is underselling them a bit too much, if not underselling the lack of female battlers for years too. Besides that, I still don't see them drastically changing how they've handle female characters just because Liko is the new lead. I'm not saying that she's going to be afraid to battle like Chloe, but despite her getting the most focus out of the promotion thus far, I would kind of need to see her do a lot more than one battle with her new partner Pokemon to think that they'll make her more battle active. I just don't have a lot of confidence about them suddenly changing how they've handle female character for the better part of a decade, regardless of Liko being a new main lead instead of a traveling companion.
Yet you have no problem to believe that they'll drastically change the main character's role. Even though we already see her battling and her amulet is battle related.
We've only briefly seen one battle seemingly against another new trainer. That's really not enough to say that she'll have a battle active goal or be a battler. I'm not sure if her amulet is battle related. It wouldn't be a stretch when it seems connected to terastallize, or at least the light around Shiny Rayquaza was similar to it, but I don't know if that is confirmed exactly yet either.
I just want the Grass type starter curse to be broken. We haven't had one on the main cast evolve since Torterra. I really just want Sprigatito to evolve. Floragato is my favorite Gen IX Pokemon and I really don't wanna see it get robbed of screentime.
