Oh no, I wasn't clear - people tend to assume a distraction isn't dangerous. Capitalizing on that is clever - that was my meaning, not an insult. Elemental magic's fierce.
And-- yes. A central tenet of Yharnam fanaticism is the concept of seeing further. Many fight blindfolded. All Choir members are blind by their own han. And many of those who are ill with latter stages of either the ashen sickness or the beasthood variant have trouble with their eyesight; I wasn't exempt from that.