They were just too lucky to be able to avoid the worst possible outcome each time.
It was almost like they had a guardian angel watching out for them each time, or that was how some of them thought.
What they did not know was that each time such things happened, Sloane had been sacrificing one of the uses of his ability.
He used the temporary luck to turn events back in his favour.
In each close call, he was there to intervene just in time.
Each of those moments allowed him to put to use his ability, allowing him to gain more of an understanding of it, and it made him grasp the best times that he should activate it.
He tried to reduce the usage and to hone his individual skills and his teamwork rather than solely relying on his ability to get through each obstacle.
If he could do that, then he would be able to reduce the number of times that he would have to rely on it to overcome a major crisis.
