Sandstorm - Twilight Meteorite bug?

Anyone observed anything like this before? Seems really odd to me and I can’t think of a single thing to cause it.

The weather effect was Sandstorm. My TCS vs their Anub Idol, last man standing on each team.

[00:57:44] [Pet Battle]: Round 24
[00:57:45] [Pet Battle]: [Phase Shift] applied [Dodge] to your Twilight Clutch-Sister.
[00:57:47] [Pet Battle]: [Crush] was dodged by your Twilight Clutch-Sister.
[00:57:49] [Pet Battle]: Round 25
[00:57:50] [Pet Battle]: [Twilight Fire] dealt 157 damage to enemy Anubisath Idol.
[00:57:50] [Pet Battle]: [Twilight Fire] applied [Twilight Flame] to enemy Anubisath Idol.
[00:57:53] [Pet Battle]: [Crush] was dodged by your Twilight Clutch-Sister.
[00:57:54] [Pet Battle]: [Twilight Flame] dealt 34 damage to enemy Anubisath Idol.
[00:57:54] [Pet Battle]: [Dodge] fades from your Twilight Clutch-Sister.
[00:57:54] [Pet Battle]: applied [Dragonkin] to your Twilight Clutch-Sister.
[00:57:55] [Pet Battle]: Round 26
[00:57:56] [Pet Battle]: [Twilight Meteorite] dealt 468 damage to enemy Anubisath Idol.
[00:57:58] [Pet Battle]: [Crush] dealt 325 damage to your Twilight Clutch-Sister (Strong).
[00:57:58] [Pet Battle]: Your Twilight Clutch-Sister died.

By the last round I was on <50hp and his Idol was under 700. For some reason my Dragonkin racial Twilight Meteorite hit for 468…
By my maths it should be 772+50%(racial) so 1158.
1158 - 74 for weather effect so 1084.

I considered maybe if the weather effect was somehow tripled because Meteorite can hit 3 targets that would be 772-74-74-74 = 550, even without taking into account my Dragonkin racial being active.

There were no other unmentioned damage modifiers or buffs at play.

Absolute headscratcher.

Had you killed an opponents pet with a multi hit ability on the 2nd or 3rd hit or cyclone? This causes split aoe to bug out.
It looks like what has happened is the 468 is split damage between two targets combined with 3 lots of the sandstorm shield effect.

468 x 2 + 74 +74 +74 = 1158

I’d suggest not running multi hits or cyclone with split aoes like twilight Meteorite if you want to avoid this happening from time to time.

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Right, that makes some sense, I appreciate the input bud.

No cyclone in the match, I had potentially killed one of his backline pets with an earlier T. Meteorite or Primal Cry, although that one’s not a multi hit ability in the same way.

Strange bug indeed, but good to hear some of the ‘logic’ behind it.

I know TCS players get flak, but I play this team a lot and have never seen Meteorite bug out like this before.

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