Solved calling skill level and failing

[shivaria]

SOLVED: When using Shield Skills, always "getEffectiveSkillLevel" and not "getSkillLevel"
Wish I knew about this before! lol

Does anyone know why these two different codes arent giving an accurate shield level when calling for it?
TFS 1.1
10.77

local config = {
    db_table = 'players',
    db_pointsColumn = 'skill_shielding',
    db_idColumn = 'id',
}
local shieldLevel = db.storeQuery("SELECT `"..config.db_pointsColumn.."` FROM `"..config.db_table.."` WHERE `"..config.db_idColumn.."` = "..player:getAccountId())

local shieldLevel = player:getSkillLevel(cid, SKILL_SHIELD)

Im using this to call for it

function equalsRandomNumber(num)
    return math.floor(math.random(1, num)) == 1
end

function returnMinMax(min, max, value)
    return min <= value and max >= value
end
function onUse(player, item, fromPosition, target, toPosition, isHotkey)

if returnMinMax(1, 3, shieldLevel) then
            if equalsRandomNumber(5) then

 

[godoyxd]

Please, could you paste the whole script?