You should at least get normal cycle, shigeru is even better, if you wanna save time in DW

you can lose like 2 cycles over shig and still save time over not doing reds

If you arent good at reds, I would either not do it and wait or practice the shit out of it.

Shig is easy to do learn that if you want idk how much it saves because idk what youre doing at the moment

not about dw reds: how long have you been running sm64, if its not for long then practice movement instead of tricks. See bluebobs 16 star example run where he does nothing but beginner strats and manages to get a 17. He doesnt even do lakitu skip or bomb clip

Ive been running for a little less than two months but I can get bomb clip and lakitu skip consistently enough that I rarely lose runs to them. The only trick I really lose runs to early is cannonless but even then it’s only because I misplace the first ledge grab or miss the long jump + jump dive across the ramp because I’m being impatient.

I’ve seen Bluebobs beginner 16 star vid. I guess I’m mostly looking for minor timesaves to make up for losing large chunks of time with Mips, stairs, and BitS. Most of the time (when I get a good Mips split) get out of BitFS around sub 17.

I would stick it out and practice with reds, if you look at my run I do a pretty simple and easy strat that is probably still worth doing instead of no reds and another star later.