Pokémon Platinum characters
Meet 19 characters from Pokémon Platinum. Open a card for the full profile.
Profiles discuss story events. Artwork may depict a different release.
19 character profiles · one picture per entry · open a card for the profile.
Main characters
Barry
Barry is the player’s childhood friend and recurring rival.
Dawn
Dawn can be chosen as the player character, with Lucas then serving as Rowan’s assistant.
Looker
Looker investigates Team Galactic during Platinum.
Lucas
Lucas is one of the two possible player characters.
Professor Rowan
Rowan studies Pokémon evolution and oversees the research assignment that sends the player through Sinnoh.
Gym Leaders
Roark
Roark combines his work in Oreburgh Mine with leading the city’s Gym.
Gardenia
Gardenia leads Eterna’s Grass-type Gym.
Fantina
Fantina is both Hearthome’s Gym Leader and a Super Contest performer.
Maylene
Maylene is a young Gym Leader devoted to martial-arts training.
Crasher Wake
Pastoria’s Gym Leader brings professional-wrestling showmanship to Water-type battles.
Byron
Byron is Canalave’s Steel-type specialist and Roark’s father.
Candice
Candice leads Sinnoh’s northern Ice Gym and is a friend of Maylene.
Volkner
Volkner is Sinnoh’s final Gym Leader and a friend of Elite Four member Flint.
Elite Four
Aaron
Aaron is one of Sinnoh’s Elite Four.
Bertha
Bertha is one of Sinnoh’s Elite Four.
Flint
Flint is one of Sinnoh’s Elite Four.
Lucian
Lucian is one of Sinnoh’s Elite Four.
Champion
Cynthia
Cynthia is both Sinnoh’s Champion and an investigator of the region’s history and mythology.
Villains
Cyrus
Cyrus leads Team Galactic and seeks to replace the existing world with one shaped by his rejection of emotion and spirit.
References
Covered edition: Original Nintendo DS release; not Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl.