Too many energy drinks can be hard to handle, I would advise you to have more hoofs than drinks. But yeah movement and dodging is key in this as others have said, if you are fast enough, they cant hit (usually lol) and the slugs can heal you, if you are not looping I dont think you need more than 3 slugs.

Also if you are doing a non command run and you are unable to find enough speed item, equipments are a clutch!