The Anime Tale Of Dawn

The Power Gap Difference Between May and Dawn:

The difference of power wise and background wise ways:
About May:
Despite May's father, Norman who is a Hoenn Gym Leader AKA a Petalburg Gym Leader, May wasn't interested of Pokémon even after she became a Pokémon Trainer at the age of 10 by obtaining a Torchic from Professor Birch

Everybody kept expecting to follow her father, Norman's footsteps until she finally saw a Pokémon Contest with her brother, Max alongside with their friends, Ash Ketchum and Brock even her mentors: Janet & Chaz

May's battling skills during the early days of the Advanced Generation (AG) Series are sadly inferior & clumsy at the early days' ways due to the fact that she wasn't found of Pokémon until she loves them as she gets to have the improvements a lot & take notes from her entire journey especially getting the training sessions with Ash & Brock

Due to Dawn having a lot of aforementioned resources (notes: see the "As For Dawn" notes,) she was able to beat May with all of her heart, power & soul.

In return, this allows Dawn to become powerful by learning well upon battling and winning against an improved Coordinator Trainer: May

Also. In return, May vows to grow even stronger because of this, the same goes for Dawn

Her current goals are: to find her own style, which was therefore also a goal to improve her Contest Battle skills and ultimately become a Top Coordinator, when the time is finally right

As for Dawn:
Dawn's Mother, Johanna is one of the most powerful famous Top Coordinators from the Sinnoh Region and the world of the OLM's Pokémon Anime.

Dawn learns the good teachings from her mom, Johanna such as the Poffins' cooking ingredients' directories & the most of the basic, some of the immediate and some of the Advanced resources about their aforementioned home Regions' Pokemon Contest except for the Double Performances.

In return, this obviously gives her with some of the basic prodigy levels at the prodigy early ways and she was fond of Pokémon from the start.

In other words: Dawn is always 1 up to 10 or even 20 extra percent ahead of May in terms of learning about Pokémon before the main storyline events from the world of the OLM's Pokemon Anime begins.

On top of that: Dawn and her Pokémon also learned training sessions from Ash & Brock especially during the middle of their journey in Sinnoh.

She later on broke her depression by finally having her 1st official Gym Battle with the Veilstone Gym Leader Maylene

That is how Dawn was able to beat May with all of her heart, power & soul. In return, this allows Dawn to become powerful by learning well upon battling and winning against an improved Coordinator Trainer: May

Also. In return, May vows to grow even stronger because of this, the same goes for Dawn

Notes:
Dawn is NOT May 2.0. She was never meant to be May 2.0.

Dawn is Dawn. Her character arc is in-fact about following her mom's dream of being a top coordinator, who she looks up to as inspiration.

Dawn is a strong passionate girl to follow such amazing dreams from a role model.