Honestly I've never really used Parallel eventing before so I wasn't about to risk it for this, but thanks for the idea it's something I'll have to look more into. Him getting the upper hand and using his skills first is a brilliant idea I'm sad I didn't think of lol. That would have been much better, but, oh well. Lesson learned for next time.
Hmm, might be the case with the paralyzing. I wasn't able to do much testing with it so it was more hoping it worked than anything. Sucks if it doesn't work as intended cause it kind of ruins the whole status.