RE: No lift(after long headache) 450 Clone
You usually match pitch in both flight modes around center stick or so and switch to idle up in a hover. Cp helis are meant to fly in idle up at all times, but normal is fine while you're learning.
Is your swash moving up while you move your throttle stick up? Put a linear hold on your throttle hold pitch curve and with TH on so the blades aren't spinning move the throttle stick up and down and see if the swash is doing what it's supposed to.
How is the heli behaving as you spool up? Is it doing nothing, squatting down, tipping over?