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Can someone explain this interaction to me?

I was just playing random battles, and I had already set up a no retreat, and facing down a pinchurchin I wanted to set up a second one thus raising my defenses allowing me to survive a zing zap and then KO back and hopefully do some real damage to his team. However, when I did, no retreat failed causing me to get KO'd and lost the game later. I dont care too much about the loss, but I want to know why. I searched up the effects of electric terrain, I researched no retreat, I even research Zing Zap, and I cannot find why it would fail. Can someone help me figure out why?
https://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen9randombattle-2606946158
Link to the battle just in case I missed something else (Turn 8 is where the fail in mention happened). I know most interactions pretty well I think, am I missing something stupid or is there some niche interaction I dont know?

Thanks to anyone who can help

Edit: Thanks for the help! Was actually planning on using Falinks in draft and did not know this interaction, great to learn it now. Maybe need to draft Sableye for mean look to lock it in letting it stack boosts 👀

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