Its definitely something you'll have to experiment with and figure out what matches the game best, you already have some solid ideas on how to tackle it, air strafing could help for sure. Something you can try is adding another button, for example the first left click throws the paper roll, any left clicks while the roll flies pulls you towards it, right click recalls the roll. Or the roll flies away from you but doesn't pull you until you make it, but that might need some other changes.