A lotus can screw up your timing doing lobelia loop combos, not sure if you can get some good mid screen combos with them but it's possible. 3C 8D brings people up pretty high, idk, be creative. B lotus is good with zoning since 5D makes projectiles fly faster. Also you can wind in angles you normally can't. B with A lotus zoning can keep people back. Should be great ways to utilize them that I'm not aware of yet.
Welcome back btw. Your posts were super useful, learned a lot from them. Hopefully you can figure out Rachel's challenge 30. I'm one lobelia short from finishing it.