Question

I used safe gaurd first, then straight away used petal dance as I was told that I would be protected from the confusion but my pokemon because confused. Later while using the same pokemon, I used safe gaurd but then became paralyzed from a foes static ability. Why did this happen??

Answer 1

Safeguard protects confusion from opponents like swagger's confusion, however, it doesn't protect from self induced confusion, like from petal dance or thrash (in this case petal dance).

Hope this helps :)

Comments

No Safeguard does prevent cofusion from Petal Dance and such.
http://pokemondb.net/pokebase/36342/how-does-safeguard-work