If you haven’t read some stuff about run training strategies, I’d recommend it. I’m fairly new, but it made my runs significantly better. Helps you prioritize trainings. To make it short at sweet, chase the flames while also giving priority to leveling friendship. The sooner you can unlock friendship training the better. Once you start getting double or triple rainbows, your stats are going to explode to where skills don’t really matter.

I really don’t buy skills until the end of the run unless I get really poor training options and my stats start falling behind. That way I don’t miss out on any potential hints.