I feel that you should use angry Susie/eyeless Susie sprites instead after Lancer gets (almost) attacked and keep those sprites for the rest of the battle.
This would be a good ideaunfortunately it also means ~70 more Susie sprites, and significantly modifying the existing setup I have for how animations playI might do it eventually, once I finish my other current projects, but it wouldn't be for a while
I knew there was lots of sprites for Susie, but i never thought that those would be ~70