Hikari Fan Club

Dawn is a 11-year-old Pokémon trainer and coordinator that travels with Ash Ketchum during Pokémon: Diamond & Pearl. Following in her mother's footsteps as a coordinator, she chooses a Piplup, which she had already befriended at an earlier point, and sets out with the goal of winning the Grand Festival. After meeting Ash and Brock, she becomes rivals with another coordinator, Zoey,[1] as well as her childhood friend, Kenny, and goes on to win the Floaroma Ribbon, the Wallace Cup's Aqua Ribbon, the Celestic Ribbon and the Chocovine Town Ribbon. Before entering her third contest, Dawn was very confident in herself, training with her Pokémon before every contest. However, after entering the Hearthome City Contest, Dawn started to lose confidence after she became the first coordinator to not pass the first round for the contest. Dawn has a tough personality and is commonly seen runing after team rocket when her Pokémon get abducted, going through various obstacles in her way. She is much like Ash on this side, and will do anything to save the day - or perhaps become a hero. Appears in seasons 10-12 (current). Dawn currently owns a Piplup, a Buneary (who has a crush on Ash's Pikachu), a Pachirisu, a Buizel. She later trades Buizel to Ash for his Aipom. Aipom later evovled to Ambipom and was set free to a ping-pong trainer. Dawn also picked up a Swinub which later evolved to Piloswine and then Mamoswine and also acquired an egg which she won in a battle, which it later hatched out a Cyndaquil.