Without the Safari Hat, I went from level 1 to 4. I always forget to put it on. Received 290 sxp

I got 1188 xp on a lvl 15 pet with safari hat, lvling it to 16. I think one of the last Shadowlands patches has buffed the xp from pet battle world quests.

A great many strats people come up with - probably more than half - CAN fail to something like a string of crits. A crit on a specific move is a 5% chance, 1 in 20. Two crits on specific moves is a 0.25% chance, 1 in 400. But it's a chance.

Then, user rankings tend to favour those strats that are simple, use common pets, and have a low fail rate, so a lot of users never see failures. Until they do. :P

I'm always amused by these low-probability failures; it's like seeing someone reacting to being almost struck by lightning - but without the genuine harm, ofc. :)

Correct, that's due to the last line of the script: "ability(#1)", you could replace it with "standby" to have the leveling pet pass the turn instead. In order to count as having participated in the battle the first pet has to have done something. Switching to another pet does not count in this regard. A level 1 pet has only 1,-,- available. Were you stating a theoretical problem, or using a level 10+ battle pet in the slot with 2,*,* selected as abilities? (edited)

Standard Note to those who leave unhelpful comments like "It didn't work" with no details.

There are several people who investigate reports of problems with strategies on Xu-Fu's. There are designated Strategy Curators, and other regulars who read comments and are interested in the latest.

In my experience, when people leave a short "It didn't work" note, they usually made a mistake. Maybe they used a pet with the wrong Speed, maybe they didn't do a Pass where it was indicated, sometimes they were even using the team and strat from a completely different battle. :)

Sometimes there genuinely is a problem with the strat. This is where the Curators and others come in, checking the strat for weaknesses, and fixing it or removing it if it can't be fixed.

Since most failure reports with no details are wrong, it's not good to waste people's time investigating them. Instead, help them by providing the information they need.

If the strat failed for you, and you want your comment to be taken seriously:

1. Specify EXACTLY which species and breeds you used. Make sure all your pets were Rare (Blue).

2. Specify whether you read the strategy from the site and executed it manually, or downloaded and used the tdScript.

3. Specify EXACTLY where the first unexpected thing happened, the first thing that deviated from what the strat predicts. What died too early? What didn't die when it was supposed to? What attack missed?

4. If possible, provide a log. You can see your log in the Pet Battle tab of your chat box. You can pull that out, make it bigger, screenshot it. Better still, you can use the addon PetBattleLogKeeper: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/petbattlelogkeeper from Curseforge, and do /pblk and Save Battle when the battle you want to log is complete.

Almost any strat can fail to a really unlucky string of crits, and some difficult challenge strats like the Family ones may fail more than anyone likes, but the people behind this site do their best to promote well-working strats.

Do your part. Provide useful information.

In this case, I've been using a Starlette on this battle since the start of BfA, with not even the remotest thought of a chance of failing, so I'm very sceptical. (edited)

Regarding:
1) you might want to add the rarity to what people should specify about their battle pets.
4) After some searching, I think you mean PetBattleLogKeeper: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/petbattlelogkeeper ? Going to give it a try, even though it seems to be abandoned (nearly two years since last update)

Thank you. Corrected.

It's not abandoned, exactly. Just not under active development, since it still works fine.

I got 405 xp with the Safari Hat on. But it's still a quicker battle, I think, than the Broom strat is

Level 1 to Level 6 during Pet week with the Safari Hat, 899 xp