Why don't Pokemon's IVs save in Pokemon Showdown?

Question

My friend and I are taking our teams from SS/HG and importing them into Showdown so that we can have a "rival battle" after every gym. I keep changing the "IVs" boxes to match what reflects in my SS game, yet any time I exit (like move on to the moves or go to change to the next Pokemon) they change back to the standard array of 31-31-31.

Comments

You should probably ask this in the help room on Showdown (https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/help) or on Smogon (https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/ask-simple-questions-here-read-original-post-before-posting.3520646/) rather than on Pokebase.

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This has never happened with me and might just be an error from PS!.

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If you're playing this on the showdown program then that would explain stuff. The thing has a few bugs. In my experience, changing evs and other stuff aren't saved but this doesn't happen on the browser version

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Can you clarify whether you're playing on the Showdown program and provide us a video of what's happening?

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While I don't know what's causing it, I know how to work around it based off experience. The IVs MUST be the last thing you edit for the Pokemon, as if you edit the IVs and then change the moves/item/abilities/evs of a Pokemon, they'll become the default 31/31/31. If the IVs are the last thing edited and you go on to edit a different Pokemon, the IVs should remain just as you set them. Showdown likely does this, as you typically want 31 on all your stats.

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@JustATypicalPerson That's not the case for me, my IVs save no matter what else I change (i.e. EVs, moves, items etc). Showdown! typically wants 0 IVs on your Attack stat (check https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/401616/?show=401681#a401681 for more on this), and resetting them to 31 is *not* in its program code.

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@Aaaaaaa when I posted this question, I was using the downloadable showdown program. Unless I keep double checkin before I battle, my team changes are not guaranteed to save. THis was too much of a pain in the ass so I just decided to use the browser one instead

@JustATypicalPerson do you mean that on the downloadable program? Because changes on the showdown website saves just normal

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@Kreepy Wdym? The question wasn't asked by you...
Did you create an alt to ask this question?

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Oh nvm. I asked a question that was near exact to this one and thought it was mine. If I'm not mistaken the answer I got explains the stuff this question is asking. My bad

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I was talking about the Showdown website, as that's what usually happens for me when editing IVs.

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In case you're wondering, here's a video of the physical attack IV resetting when I click stuff. I was never able to get the other IVs to reset. https://drive.google.com/file/d/173BLKVzlkTxbM0I_zSjyxZrhUEd6P-Jm/view?usp=sharing
Also why was this flagged?