Delirium ?

I'm currently working on completing all base notes on my first save file. Up to eve everyone has atleast everything on normal and I think two I got full on hard. The thing missing from most is delirium and since I'm trying to unlock a bunch of items I decide to just gun it for hush and go to delirium from there. Thing is for the first part of the fight everything is relatively OK. Then shit hits the fan. Any version of pin just spans the entire room. Fought a version of isaac, his beam attack just clears most of the damn room. I hear mom yell and move to avoid her stomp, to bad delirium is now one of the horsemen. It feels like the only way to consistently get delirium is gnawed leaf and I feel like using that for almost every character against delirium is cheap. Tho I'd probably take it for lost cuz there's no way I'm not getting hit twice in that fight.