The Puppetmaster
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In the episode where Ash, Dawn, and Brock were filling in for Johanna by teaching those kids about Pokemon, Dawn turned the whole thing into her trying to get her Ice Chandelier combination right. But also it seemed like they made Dawn struggle with her combinations more than May with hers.
May was rarely shown practicing on screen though. I guess this is also due to the writers' granting Dawn more screen time.
I'd say the reason Dawn was treated better is because the writers learned from past mistakes (like most have already noted). Someone also mentioned the rise in popularity of May's character which led to the writers taking Dawn to the next level (this can be seen when May receives a theme song in her last season while Dawn gets one right off the bat).