You Trick on the switchin, silly. Otherwise yes, run like hell. :P
Specs Shadow Ball does have absurd power and broken coverage though yes. Not the best situation I agree but Specs is still better than LO, lol. Same stupidly high damage output, but at least it's annoyed to all hell being unable to use King's Shield.
I'm pretty sure I don't know what "broken chords" are by that name, but if they're just arpeggios or something then I can do them