Invincible Darkrai, miracle or glitch?

Question

So I was battling Starpower at Ubers just now, and my Palkia used Aura Sphere on her Darkrai. I was aggravated to see that Darkrai lived with 2% HP (which cost me the match, I might add), and even more so when I ran the damage calculations post-battle.

252SpAtk Life Orb Palkia (Neutral) Aura Sphere vs 0HP/4SpDef Darkrai (Neutral): 109% - 130% (308 - 366 HP). Guaranteed OHKO.

According to the calcs, it would be physically impossible for Darkrai to live, the only other conditions were Rain, which wouldn't make a difference. Light Screen was not up, so don't suggest that, and I am absolutely sure that is what happened. So the question is, how?

Comments

Pure luck ;)

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There is no luck about, you won thanks to an event that was physically impossible

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Are you sure STarpower didn't run any SDef or HP Evs?
You ran Modest?

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Ok, my bad, Palkia was running Timid, but that is still a garunteed OHKO . And Darkrai was running 252 SAtk, 4 SDef, 252 Spd

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i had Focus Sash Darkrai outspeed Timid Choice Scarf Mewtwo..... after getting up 3 Nasty Plots. when I some how managed to come back wth Arceus from 2-5 and won 2-0 with Dialga my other still asleep

Answer 1

Showdown tends to glitch on a regular occurances. I have witnessed this once when it didn't subtract damage properly and missed 5 HP.
Lets just say that you should rematch Starpower :P

Comments

bug and fighting attacks are sometimes super effective on dark flying pokemon