What type of bug are you reporting? Mechanics
What is the bug?
The ability Magician does not work the same way it does in-game. Magician steals the target's item if they're attacked while the user is not holding an item. In the Generation IX games, this ability always activates, unless the user is KO'd by recoil/rocky helmet/an ability. On Showdown!, this does not activate if the target is KO'd by the attack.
This is the only footage I could find of this condition happening in-game:
In the above footage, a Delphox with Magician KO's a Typhlosion, stealing its leftovers in the process.
Are you able to replicate it? If so, how?
Use a Pokémon with the ability Magician, leave them without an item/have their item removed or consumed, then have them KO a target that is holding an item. See replay:
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2024766315-hx0wlrgquhyqqwmkq05ps165lwywuj8pw
On turn 17, Delphox does not take Gliscor's toxic orb due to knocking it out with its attack. On turn 19, Delphox does take Raging Bolt's choice specs due to Raging Bolt surviving the attack.
Further testing is needed to see if this effect persists in other generations.
What is the bug?
The ability Magician does not work the same way it does in-game. Magician steals the target's item if they're attacked while the user is not holding an item. In the Generation IX games, this ability always activates, unless the user is KO'd by recoil/rocky helmet/an ability. On Showdown!, this does not activate if the target is KO'd by the attack.
This is the only footage I could find of this condition happening in-game:
In the above footage, a Delphox with Magician KO's a Typhlosion, stealing its leftovers in the process.
Are you able to replicate it? If so, how?
Use a Pokémon with the ability Magician, leave them without an item/have their item removed or consumed, then have them KO a target that is holding an item. See replay:
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9ou-2024766315-hx0wlrgquhyqqwmkq05ps165lwywuj8pw
On turn 17, Delphox does not take Gliscor's toxic orb due to knocking it out with its attack. On turn 19, Delphox does take Raging Bolt's choice specs due to Raging Bolt surviving the attack.
Further testing is needed to see if this effect persists in other generations.