I just realized why I was failing "Gray Test Tray Shure" and "Nirvana's Cloudy Way in Purple" so much and (only) had about a 20-30% capture rate for each even with ReimuA. My "dodging method" for each Spell Card was in essence, swapped; I was doing things in one Spell Card which works a lot better in the other Spell Card, and in the other Spell Card, I was doing things that worked better in the former as opposed to the latter.
Basically, I had a your doing it wrong hurf durf which I never picked up on for months.
brb seppuku