I would say sure thing but no guarantee I could connect. With manual aiming I made great strides by getting a bunch of poison knives and manual aiming at the respawning boulder giant in Sen's from across the way. For Lloyd's I did it more like a mortar. Since the "splash" is intended to be at their feet it's easy to pick a human sized landmark (small trees in forest maybe.....keh heh heh heh) and do that from different distances and directions.
I'm willing to help with whatever, but I don't ever try to backstab, so I imagine I'm not good at fishing for them. Using me to practice defending vs that might not be as effective.