How do we solve the Blue Shell problem?

*lofi hip hop starts playing*

>twitter.com/ThornDracorn/status/1102751077051650049
too bad the poster is a huge fur faggot.

It's Sonic, hard to get away from furfags.

You can stop it with the horn item.

>be first place
>only have to worry about blue shells and lightning
>be second place
>can't catch up because 1st has a billion banana's protecting him and 3rd is constantly ramming triple red shells up your ass

This so much, being 2nd place is suffering, the whole game is trying to make you fail while that one asshole in front of you has it easy.