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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

I honestly remember Dawn having more negative experiences during contests. And I'm not talking about rivals, just other characters in general.

Dawn bombed two contests because she messed up the appeal round, it had nothing to do with characters. Not sure why you would think that, as Zoey and Kenny were entirely nice to her and Dawn never had any "mean" rivals like Gary, Paul or Harley.

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And it's entirely possible that I'm incorrectly remembering the Hoenn arcs.

Considering you said Torchic evolved out of jealously which is just plain wrong, I'd say so. Torchic evolve to protect Corphish from being beaten up by a bunch of wild Breloom, May wasn't even in that scene at the time. It was one of those episodes where the groups Pokemon get separated from Ash and co. because of Team Rocket's explosions.