User:Eelamstylez77

This page is devoted to outlining this user's history and relationship with the Pokémon world. For further details about himself, see his user page on Wikipedia.

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Eelam StyleZ Known in the games as Kamon
His most favourite player character sprite
Gender	Male
Hometown	Toronto
Region	Ontario, Canada
Trainer class	Champion
Generation	Generation I—present
Games	Silver (2000-06), Crystal (2001-06), Pokémon Stadium 2 (2001-06), Pokémon Snap (2001), Blue (2002-06), Pokémon Stadium (2002-06), Ruby (2003-present), LeafGreen (2004-05), Emerald (2004-05), Pearl (2007-present), SoulSilver (2010-present)

Eelam StyleZ has been playing the handheld main series Pokémon games, as well as a few of the Pokémon console games, since 2000. Debuting with Pokémon Silver Version for the Game Boy Color, he has fully played at least one game in each generation.

As he was introduced to the world of Pokémon during the franchise's second generation, he considers himself to be native to the Johto region and has a nostalgic and sentimental connection with the Pokémon and games that were created in that generation. In total, he has played seven Pokémon handheld games and three Pokémon console games. He also owns five children's Pokémon novels, The Official Pokémon Handbook #3, and a few Pokémon trading cards.

Outside of Bulbapedia, he is also an active editor on Wikipedia.

History

Eelam StyleZ's debut in the Pokémon world coincided with the ownership of his very first Game Boy. However, both the world of Pokémon or video gaming were not new to him.

Since 1995, he owned a Nintendo Entertainment System, and enjoyed playing Super Mario Bros., Battletoads, and a World Wrestling Federation-based action game, until 1999 when the system was damaged due to an in-home incident. Eelam StyleZ was well aware of the growing nature of the Pokémon franchise during the late 90s; the Pokémon Trading Card Game was the fad in his Toronto elementary school at the time. After finding an abandoned pack of Pokémon trading cards in 1999 in his school, he decided to keep them and later won many more trading cards in duels with schoolmates, with the help of an older student who was proficient in the trading card game. The exact cards that were contained in the set is not in memory, but it is believed that a Poliwag card was used by the older student to succeed several consecutive duels, winning many additional cards for Eelam StyleZ. The pack of Pokémon cards was later lost, but Eelam StyleZ would purchase cards during later years.

Thanks to his association with the cards, he was able to learn many Pokémon characters, such as Pikachu, Misty, and Professor Oak. In January 2000, Eelam StyleZ began to enjoy the Pokémon franchise more as he was was presented with a Game Boy Color, along with Pokémon Silver Version as his game. He started the game off choosing Totodile as his starter Pokémon. After restarting the game many times (due to frustration when he did not know where to find the next gym leader after Falkner and often having his Pokémon faint from poisoning in Ilex Forest), he finally progressed in the game and through struggles in various parts of the game (especially when challenging the Elite Four for the first time), he completed the game (defeated Red) in 2001. One of his most memorable moments during the gameplay of Silver was when he hummed along with the Champion Lance/Red battle theme and the theme played in Saffron City.

Eelam StyleZ began to own a Nintendo 64 in 2001 and purchased Pokémon Stadium 2 for it, which came with a Transfer Pak. His growing addiction to the games prompted him to purchase Crystal. He purchased an extra Transfer Pak later, which helped him trade Pokémon between Silver and Crystal via Pokémon Stadium 2, and after making his first step into Generation I with the purchase of Blue, he was able use the two Transfer Paks and the three versions to reach his highest number of Pokémon caught yet in a single game, just over 220, recorded in his Pokédex in Crystal. He later purchased the first Pokémon Stadium and enjoyed playing a friend's copy of Pokémon Snap.

Two years later, Eelam StyleZ was surprised to learn about the release of the successors of the Generation II games, Ruby and Sapphire, bringing with them the third generation. Since he had not owned a Game Boy Advance, yet had the urge to see the changes from Generation II in the new games, he downloaded the VisualBoyAdvance emulation software on his computer, along with a ROM image of Ruby and ultimately played the entire game on the emulator. He continued to use the emulator to play LeafGreen and Emerald as well. In 2004, he was able to purchase a Game Boy Advance SP and the following year, he purchased Emerald and played it again.

As of 2006, he gave away his Nintendo 64 and its two Pokémon games and sold his Blue, Silver, and Crystal versions. The whereabouts of his Game Boy Color went unknown. After he was presented with a PlayStation Portable, marking his first non-Nintendo system ownership, he traded in his Emerald at EB Games for Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (Grand Theft Auto being his second most favourite video game series after Pokémon). He also gave away his Game Boy Advance SP and later purchased a PlayStation 2, leaving him with no further Nintendo-related products.

With the opening of Generation IV and release of Diamond and Pearl, he continued to rely on emulators. He used NO$GBA to play Pearl. Later on, he was able to borrow a friend's Nintendo DS that came with Pearl and Ruby versions. Along with many other die-hard Pokémon fans, especially those stemming from Generation II, Eelam StyleZ also widely speculated Generation II-remakes, and his dream became a reality with the official announcement of HeartGold and SoulSilver in 2009. Since the Japanese release, he enjoyed listening to the remade themes from Generation II posted by fans on YouTube and followed up on new information reported about the games on Bulbapedia. Intially, he wanted to play the games on emulator but after finding out about glitches that occurred in the ROM images, he purchased SoulSilver (to commemorate his ownership of Silver) after its North American release in 2010 (marking his first Pokémon purchase since 2005) and is currently enjoying it on his friend's Nintendo DS. He is in the process of shifting over his caught Pokémon from Pearl and Ruby into SoulSilver.

Like other Pokémon fans, he is eagerly waiting for the release of Black and White and is hopeful to have a chance to play those games as well. However, he is currently debating whether he should give up playing Pokémon games in the future indefinetly as life with university is getting tough and his Pokémon addiction is only making it worse.

Statistics

Description	Record
Played games since:	January 2000
First game played:	Pokémon Silver Version
Player name:	Kamon
Rival name:	Oscar
First ever starter:	Totodile
Most Pokémon recorded as caught in a single Pokédex:	223 (in Silver)
Currently caught legendary Pokémon	Lugia, Ho-oh, Suicune, Articuno, Moltres, Zapdos, Mewtwo, Groudon, Rayquaza, Regirock, Regice, Registeel, Palkia, Giratina, Uxie, Azelf, Regigigas, Heatran
Currently owned trading card(s):	Arcanine (Base Set 23), Moltres (Fossil 12), Dodrio (Aquapolis 46), Holographic Dodrio (Aquapolis 46), Tyranitar (Aquapolis H28), Ninetales (Aquapolis H19), Porygon2 (Aquapolis 28), Tentacruel (Aquapolis H26), Starmie (Skyridge H28), Kingdra (Aquapolis H14), Seadra (Aquapolis 58), Misty (Gym Heroes 18), Gold Berry (Neo Genesis 93), Forest Guardian (Aquapolis 123)
Currently owned book(s):	Prepare for Trouble, Battle for the Zephyr Badge, The Chikorita Challenge, All Fired Up, Secrets of the GS Ball, The Official Pokémon Handbook #3
Currently owned game(s):	Pokémon SoulSilver Version
Number of event Pokémon caught till date:	None
First ever roaming Pokémon successfully caught:	Entei (in Silver)
Number of times cheated:	Only used the cloning cheat in Silver and Crystal numerous times. Attempted tweaking just once in Pearl with minimal success.
Most played main series game:	Pokémon Ruby Version

Profile

Description	Most favourite	Other favourites
Favourite Pokémon:	Typhlosion	Charizard, Blastoise, Gyarados, Lapras, Feraligatr, Houndoom, Tyranitar, Blaziken, Mightyena, Empoleon, Staraptor, Luxray
Favourite region:	Johto	Sinnoh
Favourite town/city:	New Bark Town	Goldenrod City, Snowpoint City
Favourite cave:	Mt. Silver	Stark Mountain
Favourite city/town theme:	Saffron City (II only)	New Bark Town, Azalea Town/Blackthorn City
Favourite route theme:	Route 209	Route 42/Route 43/Route 44
Favourite battle theme:	Champion Lance/Red	Kanto leader, Kanto wild Pokémon, Johto leader (all from II and IV only)
Favourite type:	Fire	Water, Steel
Favourite legendary Pokémon	Zekrom	None
Favourite main series plot	That of Diamond and Pearl	None

Trivia

• Since he chose Totodile as his starter when he first played Silver, Eelam StyleZ has a convention of choosing a Water type starter whenever he plays a main series game for the first time and has done so for every new Pokémon game he played.
• Eelam StyleZ has never completed a game with a Grass type starter.
• Due to the lack of Nintendo events in Canada, Eelam StyleZ has never attended a Nintendo event, and as a result, never owned an Event Pokémon.
• Eelam StyleZ performs a ritual while capturing Pokémon: he presses Up and B simultaneously immediately when the Poké Ball closes. Nonetheless, he does understand that pressing those buttons has no effect on catch rates (or at least that is what he believes).
• Eelam StyleZ tries to follow a convention during each generation by only playing the second and third version (and the second version of each remake) of each generation, but so far, this has been correctly followed in Generation II. He has not played Yellow in Generation I or Platinum in Generation IV. Reason for why he played Ruby instead of Sapphire in Generation III was because there was no working ROM available for Sapphire online. However as of Generation V, he expects to just play one version (and maybe one remake) of each future generation (if he does decide on continuing to play Pokémon games, that is).
• Eelam StyleZ is used to following Wikipedia conventions and may not know its differences with Bulbapedia. Thus, he is still in the process of learning Bulbapedia editing rules.