Cosmic Clone - Most Frustrating Villain EVar!!!1

[Vectorferret]

The Cosmic Clone is easily the most frustrating thing ever. Even in levels that don't become hard with him, they are still not fun at all. The star coin placement becomes things along the path anyway (no time to explore) and in many cases, I didn't even really go all that fast (based on the completion time) but still kept making mistakes just because of the stress the clone causes.
What I ended up doing is every time I encountered one of his levels I would always go back and get a leaf and then save spam it. Since he matches your speed, the slow downs when you hover with the leaf affect him too, which gives you time to think and properly plan the next movement. Lakitu in Mario 3 was bad, but the clone is so much worse.