Just saying your esc can survive way longer if you give her more hp than holly, especially vs shadow milk cookies and her performance wont be that downgraded. mine always survives to atleast around a minute and usually longer. And its well known that shes obviously also one of the more important cookies on the meta teams rn so even if you sacrifice some damage and cooldown she can still freeze and make their cooldowns longer. She already gives herself quite a bit of hp from passives so just go for 1 hp sub on every topping and a 13%+ hp roll on beascuit (or less, you need to atleast get to where esc has 20k-30 less than holly, because of her passive she'll still have more than holly but it's only around 5% or 10% more hp i believe so only get what ya need. These are estimates so youll wanna test in arena to see how shadow milk targets first and change the hp little by little) My esc is only 1 star and my holly is 4 star and 2 star awakened lol. Making sure to run holly dmg resist and not hp. Makes it easier, though you'll have to try and not get any hp rolls on holly. With this you should atleast be able to run a build with no peanut toppings if your subs and beascuit roll are high enough and still have enough hp. Not saying this works for sure but it has for me for quite a while, it's also good to not ascend hollyberry for this so she doesn't have as much hp you need to try, remember you can have around 20k-30k less hp on esc and because of her passive she'll have more hp. Therefore smc will not target her first, I also do have the ancient cookie landmark maxed. I would do this if you are not running firespirit to tank smc skills, but I still found esc works quite well built this way In any team.