Horokko

The Horokko (ホロッコ), also known as "Zakobon", is one of the most common and most familiar Reaverbots in the Mega Man Legends series. The horn on top of its head makes it almost as tall as Mega Man Volnutt. In the first Mega Man Legends, the Horokko has the one familiar Reaverbot red eye. In Mega Man Legends 2, they have two smaller hole-like eyes.

Mega Man Legends
In Mega Man Legends there are two varieties of Horokkos. The standard green Horokko fall onto their backs and shoot out bombs, and sometimes spin into the intruder. Mega Man can kick their bombs back to them.

The Red Horokko (レッドホロッコ) is a lot faster and more aggressive and attack with fireballs instead of bombs, alongside the spin attack. The fireballs cannot be shot and destroyed like the bombs, so one must dodge the fireballs.

Mega Man Legends 2
Unlike the previous game, they are now fought in the surface (as random encounters in some areas) as well as underground and even on another planet! They also appear in many colors with varying strengths, but lost their ability to fire bombs, forcing them to attack by bumping into MegaMan, given the opportunity. The ones that stand out are the Fire Horokko (ファイアホロッコ) and Ice Horokko (アイスホロッコ) (which can still fire bombs at MegaMan) which can cause burning damage to MegaMan. MegaMan can pick up and throw them (including the fire and ice varieties) in Mega Man Legends 2, although he will suffer burning damage should he get attacked (the fire damage can be prevented by buying the Flame Barrier, there is no barrier for Ice damage). With a strong Omega-rated armor, they could be pushed around and destroyed without damaging MegaMan, although he will still suffer the additional damage if he bumps into the fire and ice versions.

Other appearances
In the unrelated crossover Namco × Capcom, both Horokko and Red Horokko from the first game appear as enemies. Horokkos attacks by tackling enemies and Red Horokkos by releasing fireballs.

Horokkos were slated to appear in the cancelled Mega Man Legends 3 game.

Trivia

 * It makes an appearance in Namco X Capcom as a minor enemy, appearing much earlier than MegaMan and Roll.
 * Zakopon (ザコポン) was Horokko's name during development of the game, but it was changed and only stayed in the game as the name of the stuffed Reaverbot in the junk shop in Apple Market, which is known as Rover outside Japan.
 * Horroko was misnamed as Zakobon in Prima's Official Strategy Guide.
 * Zako is a Japanese word used to refer to minor enemies.