Index at nil when trying to call upon the local players stats

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i’m trying to call upon the players stats so that it’ll then change the rank stat

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#2

Which line is erroring? And can you provide that line here?

#3

this is a localscript right?
you can’t get localplayer in a server script so player would be nil
just noticed it’s in serverscriptservice too

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local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local LeaderStats = Player:WaitForChild("leaderstats")
local Rank = LeaderStats:WaitForChild("Rank")
local Group = LeaderStats:WaitForChild("Group")
local Contribution = LeaderStats:WaitForChild("Contribution")
local DemonSlayer = LeaderStats:WaitForChild("DemonSlayer")

if DemonSlayer.Value == true then
    Rank.Value = "Mizunoto"
end

local function RankCheck()
    if Contribution.Value >= 100 then
        Rank.Value = "Mizunoe"
    elseif Contribution.Value >= 300 then
        Rank.Value = "Kanoto"
    elseif Contribution.Value >= 500 then
        Rank.Value = "Kanoe"
    elseif Contribution.Value >= 600 then
        Rank.Value = "Tsuchinoto"
    elseif Contribution.Value >= 700 then
        Rank.Value = "Tasuchinoe"
    else
        Rank.Value = "Mizunoto"
    end
end

RankCheck()

In this fixed code, I’ve changed “LeaderStats” on line 3 and “Leaderstats” on line 5 to match the correct capitalization. Also, I’ve corrected the conditional on line 7 to check the value of “DemonSlayer” using “DemonSlayer.Value” instead of just “DemonSlayer”.

There is the corrected code, I hope it helps you.

#5

You cannot use LocalPlayer in a server script. You can use the game.Players.PlayerAdded event
Example:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	local LeaderStats = Player:WaitForChild("leaderstats")
	--...
end)
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#6

i’m pretty sure you could also shorten your RankCheck function by using a ‘Ranks’ dictionary and a for loop
it’ll also be easier able to add ranks

local Ranks = {
    ["Mizunoto"] = 100,
    ["Tasuchinoe"] = 300,
    ["Kanoe"] = 500,
    ["Kanoto"] = 600,
    ["Mizunoe"] = 700
}

local function RankCheck()
   for Title, MaxXP in Ranks do -- assuming the numbers are XP values (MaxXP)
      if Contribution.Value >= MaxXP then
         Rank.Value = Title
      end
   end
end

RankCheck()

correct me if i’m wrong

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#7

its line number 2
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#8

I’ll try that since i never knew you could do that

#9

do i put the all the variables like Rank and groups into the function?

#10

Anyways, if it’s showing actual leaderstats in game, it should be spelled “leaderstats” (all lowercase).

Why are you spelling it like this: “LeaderStats”? If it’s actually showing up in game, that means you spelled correctly the first time so try replacing “LeaderStats” with “leaderstats”.

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i named it that cause in my datastore its also named like this
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#12

You should be doing this RankCheck function in a server script. Additionally, RankCheck won’t work anyways because it is out of scope.

#13

Where should i do the rank check?

#14

On the server in your leaderstats script.