>>11801536>just memorize that the enemy will be there and you winThat's not how it works at all, and it's painfully obvious you've never played it.
By the way, this is like 95% of the strategy of beat-em-ups and shmups.
Also you should just be blindfiring during pit jumps, the game gives you a shit ton of shurikens to allow you to spam them as needed.