Editing May

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May was the daughter of the gym leader Norman. She was born in [[Johto]], but her family moved to Littleroot Town in [[Hoenn]] after Norman became a gym leader there. She soon met the neighbors, including his future rival Brendan and Professor Birch, the latter of whom he saved from a wild Pokémon using one of three Pokémon from Birch's bag. Afterwards, Birch thanked her and let her keep the Pokémon. He sent her to Oldale Town where Brendan would teach her about being a Pokémon trainer, and after the two battled and returned to Littleroot, Professor Birch bestowed upon May a [[Pokédex]] for use in recording data on Hoenn's Pokémon, while her mother gave her a pair of Running Shoes as a parting gift.

Soon she started to explore Hoenn, challenging and conquering its eight gyms as she traveled. Early in her journey, she taught a sickly boy named [[Wally]] how to catch Pokémon at her father's request, which helped Wally to recover and improve as a Pokémon trainer. May also battled Brendan several times throughout his quest until Brendan acknowledged her as superior and returned home. She eventually defeated even his own father. At the same time, May had a series of confrontations with members of the criminal organization [[Team Magma]] (in ''Ruby''), [[Team Aqua]] (in ''Sapphire'') or both organizations (in ''Emerald''). This culminated in a battle with [[Archie]] and/or [[Maxie]] followed by a crisis involving [[Groudon]] and [[Kyogre]]. The problem was resolved when May defeated the raging Pokémon (in ''Ruby'' or ''Sapphire'') or when May summoned [[Rayquaza]] to break up the two warring Pokémon.

May became the Pokémon League champion after defeating Hoenn's Elite Four and their champion [[Steven Stone]] or [[Wallace]]. Afterwards, her Pokédex was upgraded to National Mode by Professor Birch, and Norman gave her tickets to the S.S. Tidal. In ''Emerald Version'', [[Scott]] then invited her to come to the Battle Frontier and test out his skills there.

At the beginning of the Delta Episode, [[Zinnia]] broke into May's home and stole her Mega Stone. Brendan's quest started as trying to receive that Mega Stone, which was successful in the end. Afterwards, Brendan and May went to see the star show for the Litlenoid meteor shower at the Mossdeep Space Center, using a pair of tickets provided by Brendan's parents.

*May was a main character in the ''Ruby''/''Sapphire''/''Emerald'' episodes of the Pokémon anime, acting as [[Red#Other Media|Ash Ketchum]]'s new traveling companion following the departure of [[Misty]]. In this version May is the daughter of Norman and has a brother named Max who also travels with them for a time. She initially disliked Pokémon and became a trainer just to travel, but she eventually grew to liking them after traveling with Ash and began competing primarily in Pokémon Contests while Ash took on the gym leader challenge. Her starter Pokémon was a Torchic. After they completed their challenges in Hoenn, they continued in Kanto with May still competing in Pokémon Contests while Ash took on the Battle Frontier. After that series ended, May parted ways to compete in contests at Johto. She also made guest appearances during the Wallace Cup episodes of the ''Diamond & Pearl'' episodes, where she competed in the tournament and lost to [[Dawn]].

*She appears in the ''Pokémon Special'' manga as Sapphire, being featured in the story arcs based on the third generation games. Sapphire was shown as being very tomboyish and dressing in leaves to catch Pokémon, focusing more on her work than appearance and hygiene. After meeting Ruby who was obsessed with beauty, they compete to see if within 80 days Ruby could win all of Hoenn's Pokémon Contests and Sapphire could beat all the gym leaders, with Ruby also giving Sapphire "real" clothes to wear. She made her way through the various gyms, crossing paths with Ruby and battling Team Aqua several times along the way. Eventually she trained under [[Winona]] after losing to her in order to prepare for the fights against Team Aqua and Magma, only to be disappointed when Ruby acts irresponsible. Flashbacks show that Sapphire was inspired to be such a committed trainer by seeing how powerful the prodigy Ruby was as a child. although this same incident made Ruby too afraid to utilize his talents. After Ruby returns and they both train under [[Juan]], Sapphire and Ruby recognize each other from that childhood event, which leads them to confess their feelings to each other. However, after time is altered following the last battles, Sapphire remembers their confessions while Ruby seems to have forgotten. Regardless, Sapphire defeats Norman offscreen to earn her last badge and complete their challenge. In the ''Emerald'' arc she and Ruby arrive at the Battle Frontier to help Emerald capture [[Jirachi]], with Winona advising Sapphire not to give up on Ruby. By the end of the arc all of the Pokédex trainers team up to defeat [[Archie]] and the artificial [[Kyogre]].

*Like all of the playable protagonists of the ''Pokémon'' games, her name is actually chosen by the player. May is assumed as her canon name as it is the name automatically given to her as a non-playable character.

*She has not yet appeared in ''[[Pokémon Masters]]'', but she has been alluded to by Brendan in his sync pair story. That game uses the non-playable version of May who is Birch's granddaughter, and she is said to focus on Pokémon Contests instead of battling.