I incorporated a slightly shortened superjump up the first set of stairs that also prevents the enemies from hitting me as long as the RNG is decent. The first set of 3 enemies have a few different patterns they can follow. They can either spawn farther back away from the top of the stairs or closer to the top. You want them to spawn further away so they will be tucked around the corner out of sight.

I got a lot better ending with a roll that saves about 0.5s, but my save glitch was slow so it didn't save as much time.