Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire May is a Pokémon coordinator from Petalburg City and is the daughter of the Hoenn Pokémon League Petalburg City Gym Leader, Norman, and sister of Max. She met Ash Ketchum in Hoenn and started traveling with him after obtaining her first Pokémon, Torchic.
Over time, May gets pretty close to her coordinator rivals. In particular, one of her most interesting relationships is with Drew. With Roselia as his signature Pokémon, he also carries around a lot of roses. He gives her one almost every time they meet, flirting with her and being weird and vague about his feelings.
PiplupAlthough they disagreed at first, Piplup eventually became Dawn's partner and one of her best friends.
Remember that Ash and May are a couple in the Love when we saw in previous episodes. Ash rescue to May with Torchic, rebuilding the trust between Ash and May, allowing them to work together to free Pikachu. Ash and May apologize to each other, and the fight ends.
May is generally a very sweet and optimistic girl. She enjoys feminine and cute things as well as shopping. In fact, she and Brock occasionally went on shopping trips together throughout Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire. May cares about her appearance, sometimes spending so much time in front of this mirror that it caused her traveling companions to become frustrated with her, such as in The Bicker the Better. May also is interested in helping other people with their romantic problems.
May's Contest cry is "Take the stage!" (Japanese: ステージ・オン! Stage On! ). In the English dub, she also uses variations, such as "On stage!"
Her "Pink Surprise" came from the recipe Professor Oak uses to make Ash's Snorlax 's food. Thus, after May first fed it to her Munchlax, it was automatically made full. This Pokéblock was regularly used to feed Munchlax in order to prevent it from eating the food of others. May and Drew.
This sparked one of May's most memorable quirks in Hoenn, "May's Expeditions". Starting from A Mudkip Mission, May would occasionally make a camera lens with her fingers, pretending she was the host of a traveling show.
May has Contest Passes to compete in Hoenn, Kanto and Johto. She also has a personal theme song, I Won't Lose! ~Haruka's Theme~, performed by KAORI.. It was first used as background music in Curbing the Crimson Tide and was used multiple times after that during May's Contest performances and battles. The song became the ending theme of the show between Pokémon Ranger - Deoxys' Crisis! (Part 2) and Home is Where the Start Is! .
May had been wearing a blue swimming cap in the ocean, and her mother had mistaken her for a Tentacool from afar and attempted to catch May with one of her Poké Balls. Harley played the recording of this story during the Izabe Island Pokémon Contest to embarrass May into losing.
Though she is generally kind, she occasionally argues with her little brother, Max. The two had arguments since Max's debut episode, but one of their most notable was in Take This House and Shuppet. May's harsh words to Max made him declare that he hated May and he ran away for a portion of the episode. Even though she had been angry, May quickly felt guilty for hurting Max's feelings and became very worried that he would be hurt on his own. In Date Expectations, May revealed that she had promised her mother to always take care of Max on their journey. So even though the siblings had many quarrels, May deeply cares for her brother and would go to great lengths to protect him.
May obtained Squirtle during her visit to Kanto, with her partaking in Kanto Pokémon Contests while Ash took on the Battle Frontier challenge. Squirtle quickly took to Contests, with it defeating Harley's Ariados at the Saffron Contest in its first real contribution to May's team.
After May caught herself a Munchlax, the prospect of her potentially having a Snorlax in the future was certainly intriguing, but Munchlax was mostly limited to comic relief with it always looking for food.
At first glance, it would be safe to assume that Skitty was just there to be an adorable member of May's team, but it eventually grew to become an accomplished battler and Contest Pokémon, a worthy addition to May's overall team.
With Egg Pokémon becoming something of a staple in most series of the Pokémon anime, May's resulting Egg Pokémon in the Ruby & Sapphire series ended up being an Eevee. Eevee won in its Contest debut by defeating Brock's Marshtomp to win the Gardenia Town Contest, and it didn't stop there.
Bulbasaur was May's fourth Pokémon and was quickly nurtured and educated with the help of Ash's own Bulbasaur, with the two of them even combining to fight off Team Rocket in "Hokey Poké Balls" before Ash's Bulbasaur had to return to Professor Oak's Lab.
Wurmple was May's first wild capture towards the beginning of her Pokémon journey and quickly evolved into Beautifly via Silcoon. Beautifly became one of May's most used Pokémon in the first half of her Pokémon Contest journey, naturally losing more Battle Rounds than it won.
With Torchic being May's first ever Pokémon, it initially had to be patient with its trainer, with May being scared of both Pokémon and the concept of failure towards the beginning of her journey. May would often opt to use Skitty and Beautifly instead of Torchic, due to its inexperience, but this all changed when it evolved into Combusken.
After May left Skitty and Beautifly in Hoenn, she met Ash in Pallet Town and one of Oak's Squirtles seemed to take a liking to her. Professor Oak allowed May to have the Squirtle and traveled in her Poké Ball. He learns powerful moves like Ice Beam, Aqua Tail and Rapid Spin .
In the episode Brave the Wave, while May was taking off her clothes, she appeared to never take her gloves off.
As a Torchic, it evolved in the episode A Shroomish Skirmish, when trying to fend off some Shroomish and Breloom. It later evolved in the midst of a Pokémon battle with Team Rocket . #N#Skitty 15px. Skitty was caught in I Feel Skitty! when Torchic ran away from a training session with May and found a sick Skitty.
When May saw a contest battle for the first time, she decided to become a coordinator. She then had to overcome her fear of bug type Pokémon by raising her Wurmple into a Beautifly .
After May saved the Manaphy egg in Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, it hatched and imprinted on May and thought she was its mother. It had such a close bond with May, it began learning words and even learn May's name. But it knew it had to leave and protect Samiya, the Sea Temple, even though it did not want to leave her side. Leaving her behind, it left with a few words including "love" and "you".
Getting half by tying with Ash's Sceptile, where she used Blaziken (unofficial).
Like Misty, May is last seen leaving the group and returning to her respective journey, with no mention or future appearance in the series.
Despite her beauty, May is a sweet and very kind-hearted beautiful girl who would help people in need. Like Misty, May can get very angry and hot-tempered at times when disagreeing with Ash Ketchum or Max (May's younger brother), but May is able to overcome her fear of Bug-type Pokémon. However, she can get very sad, especially when she loses a Contest, but does her best to prevail. She is also shown to have a side for romance, though on rare occasions. She became angry at her Munchlax because it was eating food that belonged to someone else and ran off when she didn't keep an eye on it, she had Max give Munchlax "pink surprise" in order to stop Munchlax's appetite and prevent it from eating.
May and her parents, Caroline and Norman.
May's Wallace Cup outfit is an Arabic-themed pearl-pink veil which has a green gem at the top, pink top with saffron borders and heart on the chest area, lilac-purple skirt, saffron-colored necklace with a red heart-shaped gem, pink fabric in her waist, and brown flip-flop shoes with toe rings. In her cosplay as Nurse Joy, she wears a pink mini-dress, white dress coat, a nursing cap with a pink cross, and white Mary Jane flats, basically the outfit worn by Nurse Joys in the Kanto, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh regions. In the Diamond and Pearl series, she was shown wearing orange and white pajamas.
May sometimes is exasperated by Brock's constant falling-in-love with most girls he meets. She thinks he might be a nuisance but doesn't deny the fact that he is a great cook and has a good reputation with Pokémon. She thinks she had a lot to learn from him, always curious about how to treat a Pokémon properly. May also considers Brock a close friend.
May and Ash developed a fond sibling-like relationship over their traveling period together. Through their journey, May would go to Ash for help or advice and she would have practice battles together. They are seen to bicker a lot but it has been shown numerous times that they are best friends.
May has a knack for finding various food places to eat, which amazed her friends. May has grown to make good Pokéblocks. Even with the recipe from Professor Oak that could satisfy Snorlax 's appetite. She also became a good battler and performer for her contests.
May meets up with Ash, Brock, and Dawn in Sinnoh, wearing a green bandanna like her game counterpart in Pokémon Emerald, then sometime later participates in the Wallace Cup at Lake Valor. Dawn once referred to her as "Princess" which makes the fact that she has an unknown identification believable.
May develops a close bond with Brendan, and eventually Wally, who both act as her rivals. May goes on to gather the eight Badges of Hoenn, stop the plans of Team Aqua SEAS / Team Magma REOR and conquer the Pokémon League all before going off to face the Battle Frontier E / Battle Maison ORAS .
If May is not selected as the player, she is helping her dad finish the Hoenn Pokédex and becoming a Pokémon Professor. She is also the player's rival and friend. Along with Brendan (when playing as May), they are the only rivals unavailable for battle after entering the Hall of Fame.
If May is selected as the player character, she starts her journey moving from her home in Johto to her new home in the town of Littleroot in Hoenn. After saving Professor Birch from a wild Pokémon, she is given one of the three starters of the Hoenn region.