15-1 IL 473 (27s) WR

This run improves my previous record by 1s.
RTA time: 27s 680ms (prev. 28s 767ms by me)
I died in my most recent full game run twice at the end of 15-1 so I decided to practice it, which turned into me wanting to improve this IL so here we are. Ended up getting this run off-stream to clean up the bonk in my 2 other 473 runs.
The general route stays the same as my previous IL which I set way back on September 23rd, 2021. However, I managed to save over 1s! with better movement. I also investigated other routes but because you need Yoshi to skip blowing up the wall at the end, taking the Yoshi from the start of the level is fastest.
There are two main ways to optimise Yoshi movement:
1. Add backwards tongues (to accelerate faster) at 0:06, 0:15, 0:23
2. Avoid fluttering (to stay at running speed) at 0:10, 0:27, 0:29
There are a lot of other optimisations:
Ducking as soon as I mount Yoshi, sniping plants and keeping fireballs loaded to be able to back tongue at 0:23, wall assisted turnarounds, duck jumping at 0:17, small dismount onto the off-screen shell. but I won't go into detail on these.
Oher notes: How long it takes for the plant at 0:15 to shoot is RNG. I messed up the backwards tongue at 0:18.
IL count: 100/100

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