Ash had it rougher too, specially in Kanto. And Harley made it roguher for May which Ursula is not able to achieve as of now.
But May's story was original compared to Dawn. Dawn is a copy of Ash.
Are you serious? I have my love for all 3 girls, but if anything, May was a Mary Sue at times. Dawn's story is much more realistic.
Dawn has done some things similar to Ash, but to say she's a copy is degrading her character and is completely unprofessional.
Paul is a better rival than Zoey and character wise he is better than Dawn. He has a personality while Dawn, as I said, is a copy of Ash.
To each its own. I enjoyed Zoey, Kenny, and Ursula more than Drew, Paul, Gary, Barry, and Conway.
As far as the copy thing is concerned, let's not forget, Ash does have the Buizel Dawn caught. Uses moves Dawn thought of, as well as vice versa, and even copied Misty's use of the Lure Ball on Totodile.
You my friend are blinded by the love of dawn and hate for Ash. You are forgetting that Ash is the one who makes anime and Paul is the one who made Sinnoh more interesting not Dawn. I am certain that you can't name some qualities that separated Dawn from Ash.
I absolutely love Ash. But, I find Dawn and Misty, as well as even May, Jessie, Tracey(yes, I said it), and even Soledad to be more awesome.
Ash is great, but just like Yugi and Jaden, is spoiled beyond no reason other than being the #1 character.
If screentime was equally divided, this would be a very different show, and maybe even, a better one.
You joined this very year.
Seriously won't you find it weird that Ash after traveling through four regions get beaten up by a Ninja Monkey while a girl with same story comes and achieve her goal in the same region?
A) I joined Sppf in January 2008, and been saying it there as well.
However, right before 2008, Dawn lost in the appeal round for the 2nd time, since then, I've been believing that Dawn would win her GF.
I started to believe the whole promise when Zoey and Dawn first met. I said Dawn and May are going to be so different, and they are.
I may have been overexaggerating a little bit, but at the end of the day, Dawn is very underrated as a character, so was Misty.
May's arc was handed to us with a pink bow in order for us to like contests.
Well, I ended up loving them, and honestly, I loved Dawn's more.
Also, just a thought, suppose May had Piplup, and Dawn had Blaziken, would people like May that much still?
I would, but would others.
It seems like May's popularity came from the Pokemon she had.
Take out Combusken in the BF, and make Squirtle the star, and see how popular May would be.