Oh, about the pads, those worked well and I was happy they got introduced because from there my flame worked better, and the NPC give me the advice :D
But before that level, sometimes my flame got far away from me because I tried to lit the candle from far away since I saw it, like the ice flame level, I tried to shot in arc to lit the candle and I managed to stuck the flame between the candle and the barrier. This was before I learned that I could froze the vines.
Or the level where you learn that the tomato can push you, you can see the 1st candle from the start of the level so I tried to lit with another shot in arc and I did it but after a few tries where my flame got stuck far away. This was before I learned that the tomato explode and can push you.
So it's more a case where the player (me) don't want to try more but sees the goal and just throw the thing until it works or I just want to see if I can lit the candles for far away with sick trickshot lol (because lazy to think how the actual solution is)
I'll play again the game when the game updates, feel free to ping me or sending a reply to try it out :)