How to PVP like a PRO in Minecraft 1.16 – 1.18

What’s up everyone so a few months ago i wanted to learn how to get better at minecraft combat update pvp which is version 1.9 and up but i couldn’t find any guides online that showed how to fight in this version at a higher skill level most guides would just talk about the

Basic mechanics and stop there so i loaded up minecraft 1.16 and began playing on the server pvp legacy the same one dream technoblade and other people used to practice 1.16 combat i’ve been playing the server regularly now and i’ll tell you everything i’ve learned in this tutorial video i also

Included voiceovers of different fights with youtubers who volunteered to duel me and just other interesting fights in general to help you understand my actions and thinking this video is going to have a lot of information in it so i’m going to put timestamps in the description but i wouldn’t recommend

Skipping because a lot of the information builds off of previous stuff before we get started though if you’re not already subscribed please do this is my first real video on this channel and i plan on making a lot more content in the future so it would really be appreciated if you

Showed your support by subscribing all right let’s get straight into the pvp tutorial first things first make sure you have a good mouse sensitivity set in minecraft it should be low enough that you can be accurate with tracking and aiming but it should be high enough that it is easy to do

Large quick movements in my experience a lot of people have it way too high because they don’t like moving their mouse a lot and that really costs them with accuracy try different sensitivities until you find something that works for you i can’t really give you specific numbers because everyone has a different setup

This is something that you have to experiment with yourself also please get yourself a decent sized mouse pad don’t use the crappy small one you got from your mother that has the wrist rest you can get a huge one to put both your mouse and keyboard on for less than twenty dollars

Moving on to the keyboard make sure you have comfortable keybinds that you can quickly press to access items in your hot bar on screen are my keybinds i can switch to any of the items on the hotbar quickly without having to use the scroll wheel you don’t have to use these keybinds

Specifically just find ones that are comfortable with you also make sure you try to get minecraft running as smoothly as it can in your situation i know that you might not be able to if you have a bad computer or poor internet connection but try your best to get the highest

Frame rate and lowest ping that you can and there are plenty of tutorials out there about these topics let’s jump into actual 1.16 pvp i’m going to start with the very basics so you might already know some of this stuff if you were to get one thing out

Of this video it is that minecraft 1.16 pvp is based on timed accurate strategic hits you have to be smart about how and when to attack spamming click will do little to no damage to your opponent so you must make sure that with each attack you deliver as much damage as possible

How do you do this first make sure that you attack when the attack indicator is full or almost full it’s the little bar under your crosshair you don’t have to wait for it to fill completely because you still deal a decent amount of damage when it’s around 80 to 90 percent

The attack indicator will start at zero after every time you attack or after you switch to the weapon as a quick demonstration i’m on a server with my alt account right here so i’m going to spam click for a bit and see how the hits barely do any damage

But if i wait for the cooldown bar and start to time my hits a bit more i start to do way more so you never want to spam click if you want to deal damage in 1.16 next we have another integral part of minecraft 1.16 pvp critical hits or more commonly known as

Crits these deal 50 percent more damage than normal attacks are performed if a player attacks while falling such as coming down from a jump or falling off of a block the attack indicator also has to be full and you cannot be sprinting while performing a crit

A way to get around this if you are sprinting is to let go of w as you are falling so you stop sprinting attack then quickly press w again it’s similar to w-tapping but don’t get confused between the two this only applies if you want to get a

Critical attack while you’re in the middle of sprinting if you’re walking or not moving you don’t need to worry about letting go of w you’ll know when you get a crit when you hear this sound and you see a bunch of particles coming off the other person keep in mind

I’m using bad line client which changes how particles work so it might look different for you also when another player gets a crit on you it will make the exact same critical hit sound so be sure not to get confused a big part of 1.60 in pvp

Is being able to get crits while attacking the other player the attack indicator and crits are really the main building blocks of 1.16 pvp that everything else branches off of now let’s talk about some of the weapons used 1.16 pvp generally falls into two categories swordpvp and axe and shield pvp and we

Will cover both in this video let’s get started with swords and their basic stats and mechanics swords deal four through eight base damage a hit with four being a wooden sword and eight being a netherrite sword it takes 0.6 seconds for the attack indicator of the sword to fill up

Which means you can deal a full damage attack every 0.6 seconds after fighting with a sword for a while you begin to know the rhythm at which you attack so you don’t have to look at the indicator at all another way of quantifying this in order to understand the timing better is that

The attack timing of the sword falls perfectly into the rhythm of you jumping that fact will be useful later with more advanced strategies next up axe and shield pvp and this type of pvp swords are a lot harder to use which is why we split the pvp into two

Different categories earlier this is because swords just glance off of shields and do no damage this is where axes come in axis deals 7 through 10 base damage a hit with 7 being a wooden axe and 10 being a netherite axe notice that the axes deal more damage

Than swords even the wooden one managing to deal seven this does come with a drawback however because axes take almost twice as long for the attack indicator to fill up with 1.25 seconds for a wooden axe and one second for another axe the main draw of axes is that they have

The ability to disable shields which is why they are better than swords and fights with shields attacking a raised shield with an axe disables the raised shield for 5 seconds you also don’t have to wait for the attack indicator to fill up or do a crit or anything to disable the shield

You can just spam click it if you want to disable it also just because swords are harder to use in this type of pvp doesn’t mean that they are completely useless because swords do more damage per second than axes due to their high attack speed i’ll talk about their role in accident

Shield pvp later one more weapon that i should point out that comes in most 1.16 pvp kits is the crossbow which is very straightforward and easy to use you can load it up and it will always be loaded until you fire it even if you switch away from it in your

Inventory that means you can load up your crossbow switch to something else and later in the fight quickly switch to your crossbow and fire this is extremely useful in shield pvp where you can disable someone’s shield move out of the reach and get a quick crossbow shot in

Crossbows aren’t that useful in swordpvp though because you don’t have as much time to reload now you’ve probably noticed i’ve only covered two kits a sword kit and an axe kit and this is because pretty much all other 1.16 pvp kits are extensions of these and add things such as potions

Golden apples and crystals all of these have their own individual strategies and mechanics but if i cover those the video would be way too long now let’s get into some more in-depth techniques and strategies the first one is fairly easy and obvious which is strafing since 1.16 pvp is

Heavily reliant on timed accurate hits strafing is extremely important because if you can dodge an opponent’s attack they have to wait for their attack indicator cooldown before they can attack again if you try to be as unpredictable as possible your opponents may miss attacks allowing you to get free hits in

Also keep in mind that you don’t always have to stick with the traditional strafing left and right strafing forwards and backwards can be important as well because it can throw off the rhythm of someone getting crits on you as an example if you’re running from someone and turn around they will expect

You to jump towards them so they might time their jump to get a crit based on that however if you do a quick strafe backwards they might land too early preventing them from getting a crit on you next up is health management you need to be aware of your opponent’s

Health in relation to your own health at all times some servers display your opponent’s health over their head while some don’t either way it’s important to get a feel for how much health your opponent has if you know for sure that your opponent has less health than you

You can just exchange hits until they hopefully die if you know that you are lower on health than them then you might want to play more defensive to get a few free hits in to lower their health to a point where you can just safely exchange hits again fairly

Straightforward stuff you can also play mind games with your opponent using these techniques if you convince your opponent that you have more health than them by being more aggressive they might run giving you the chance to get some free hits if you act like you are low on health when you actually have

A lot you might make your enemy act aggressive lowing their defenses and allowing you to deal some damage it’s the strategy as old as time the next technique is specific to swordpvp which is sprint resetting if you’re from the 1.8 pvp community you’ve probably heard this before

Mechanic of minecraft is that you deal more knockback on the first attack after you begin sprinting than subsequent attacks however if you stop and start sprinting really quickly after every attack you can deal this large amount of knockback from the first hit over and over again

Making it easier for you to hit your opponent without them hitting you sprint resetting also reduces the amount of knockback that you take by a slight amount even though this mechanic might be more well known in 1.8 it still certainly does exist in 1.16 although it doesn’t give you as much of

A benefit as the older versions because of the lower attack speed the best way i found to sprint reset in 1.16 is w tapping where you quickly let go and press back down w after every time you attack and again it really only gives you a benefit in sword pvp

If you do end up using this technique make sure that when you are going for a critical hit you still use the technique i talked about earlier where you let go of w to stop sprinting attack and then press w down again or else you won’t get the critical hit

Because you can’t get crits while sprinting if that’s confusing for normal attacks that you want to sprint reset on attack then quickly let go and press w again if you’re going for a critical hit jump let go of w attack and then press w again switching between these two different

Techniques can be a bit difficult because the timing is very similar but you will get used to it this next technique is also specific to sword pvp in 1.16 which is combos combos to put it simply are when you are getting consecutive hits on your opponent and they aren’t getting hits on you

Combos are well known in the 1.8 community and although they aren’t as prevalent in 1.16 they still certainly exist to some extent and mainly with swords you can perform them by attacking your opponent while having a full attack indicator and while your opponent is being knocked back from the blow

You wait for the attack indicator to fill up before repeating the process by hitting them again this works better if the opponent is at the edge of your reach because it makes it more difficult for them to hit you back and break the combo and you can

Also employ w-tapping to knock them back even further increasing the effectiveness of the combo the second type of combo is the crit combo remember how the cooldown of the sword perfectly lines up with the amount of time it takes to jump if you are jumping you can attack your

Opponent every time you are falling down from the jump thus making every attack a critical hit these are more difficult to perform however because you cannot strafe very well while doing this making it easier for your opponent to attack you and break the combo also i’m going to mention this again

Make sure you are not sprinting when you’re going for these critical combos because you cannot get crystal sprinting as a quick side note if you remember from the beginning i talked about how you can use swords in axe and shield pvp swords do more damage per second than

Axes due to their high attack speed but shields block swords if you quickly disable an opponent shoot with an axe you can get a combo end with a sword before their shield comes back and then repeat the process by disabling their shield i don’t really use this technique too

Often because you have to be really good at it to use it properly but it’s something that you should keep in mind those are the main strategies that require the most explanation you may have noticed i haven’t talked about accent shield pvp as much and this is because it’s a lot simpler

In terms of mechanics but it requires a bit more strategy and thinking that’s hard to convey just through me talking and i’ll go over more aspects of it when i’m doing the voiceover which i’m gonna do now three youtubers volunteered to duel me and both axe and sword pvp

So i could critique the fight they are anna magician ted’s attic and celestia reign their links are all in the description very cool people very good content definitely check them out all right we have now transitioned into the live voiceover part of this video so i don’t have a script or anything i’m

Just gonna watch the video and tell you what i’m doing and tell you my thoughts and actions so just bear with me if i screw some things up again i don’t have a script or anything so the first person i’m fighting right here is ted’s attic and i’m fighting

With an axe and shield kit the thing with this kit is there’s generally a lot of dancing around at the beginning trying to see he’s gonna make the first move and ted right there ends up making the first move so what he did was shoot me with his crossbow and then went and

Disabled my shield with his axe so those did no damage to me because of my shield it just tanked it all and i ended up getting a hit on him as he was doing that so right now i know i have a small health advantage over him because i got

A hit on him and he didn’t get hit on me so that health advantage just got even bigger because i got a bunch of crits on him and i got a crossbow shot in so right now i would be comfortable just trading crits until he dies and also that crossbow shot it’s super

Important to get crossbow shots in like that i see a lot of new players in accent shield pvp you know conserving their crossbow waiting to get the best shot just go for it because one crossbow shot can upset the balance in a tight game and also it’s super easy to get quick

Crossbow shots in like that you just have to catch them off guard like disabling their shield and getting a quick shot in that way or while they’re running while they’re turning around it’s just free damage and you just really have to take advantage of that and that’s exactly what i did right

There i noticed he was kind of turning around he wasn’t prepared he didn’t have a shield up and i was able to get that crossbow in Reading body language is super important in pvp especially axe and shield pvp so right there i noticed he was loading his crossbow and turning around so i immediately blocked my shield and ended up blocking the crossbow bolt that he just fired so be sure to always read what your

Enemy is doing always see what they have in their hands always see where their camera is positioned little details like that can end up saving you from getting hit and it can also allow you to get some hits in so i’m playing a bit more defensively

Than i need to right now as i said earlier i would have been fine just trading hits until he dies but i’m playing a lot of these games a bit more defensively than i need to just to give you a better idea of what’s going on so here’s a little detail that’s not

Just important for axe and shield pvp but it’s also important for sword pvp as well so if you noticed i hit him even though i didn’t have a full attack indicator after i disabled a shield and the reason i did this is i knocked him into a position that’s better for me

To get a crit on him if he continued the way he was going he would have been at a really awkward angle for me to hit him at but i knocked him into a place where i could just jump forward and get a crit on him and i end

Up doing just that and win the game so in the second round again there’s a lot of dancing around in the beginning trying to figure out who’s gonna make the first move so i ended up making the first move and it was a mistake because

I thought he was going to jump and try to get an axe crit on me and lower his shield while he was doing that so i tried to get a crit on him but he ended up not lowering his shield whatsoever and i just disabled it but luckily for me

When he was going to get a crit on me i still had my shield up so he just disabled it and i was able to get a crit on him and i follow that up with a bunch of nasty crits and i also get a crossbow shot right there

And while he’s reloading his crossbow i get two more crits and ended up winning the game losing no hp so the third and final battle with this kit is pretty similar to the first two i do a bit of strafing in the beginning and actually end up dodging one of his

Crossbow bowls which is pretty cool i get a hit on him and immediately jump away the reason i do this is because a lot of the time right after you get a hit on someone and you’re close to them they’ll often try to go for a crit on you

So i jump out of the way a lot of the time just to get out of their reach so they can’t get a crit on me so you can see right there he was jumping so he could have gotten a crit on me if i hadn’t have dodged out of his reach

And end up getting a hit on him as he ends up going for another critical on me so we get a few hits on each other he disables my shield and i turn around and get a crossbow shot on him and i do this for two reasons number one which is

The obvious reason is to deal some damage on him number two is he had some forward momentum on me and you never want someone to have forward momentum on you so i do that to knock him back a bit stop his forward momentum and also knock him into a place where i

Can jump forward and get a crit on him and i end up doing just that and i get a bunch of crits on him and win the game so now me and ted have switched over to a sword pvp kit sword pvp and 1.16 is a lot more fast paced and quick

Than axe and shield pvp so i personally enjoy swords more there’s also a axe in this kit for some reason there’s really no point in using it swords do more damage per second and there’s no shields present at all so right at the beginning i know i’m at a pretty big health advantage

I’m getting a lot of hits on him that he isn’t getting on me i’m strafing i’m avoiding a lot of his attacks and then i’m pretty confused on why i decided to do this i eat a gapple while he’s right next to me and well i have seven and a half hearts

Up i don’t know i don’t know why this is a bad idea don’t do this if you’re gonna eat a gap we’ll make sure you’re at least decently low or your opponent isn’t very close to you he ends up getting some hits on me because of that but

Since i had the regeneration from the gapple i just got the health back but i get a couple more hits on him and then i put him into a crit combo which is where i’m jumping and every time i come down from the jump i’m getting a critical hit with a sword

And that eats through your health super quickly my mouse randomly just disconnected there by the way if you’re wondering in sword pvp a good time to get somebody in a crit combo is to do it while they’re eating a gapple for a lot of reasons number one they’re

Pretty low if they’re eating a gapple unless you’re me in the beginning of the fight which means that maybe you can kill them before they get the gabble off also they’re just basically standing still so they’re not moving and you can just get a bunch of free hits on them you

Don’t have to aim i eat a gapple here which makes a bit more sense because i know that i’m able to consistently get more hits than him so if i just eat a gap whenever he eats a gapple i’ll end up killing him first all right i’m going to skip the rest of

This fight this 5 gapples so it takes a while and pretty much all the information that you needed to know was in the beginning of this fight so let’s move on to anime magician now we’re on to the fight with animagician we’re using an axe and shield kit

And the thing with annie is that he was streaming and he had pretty bad pain to begin with so just overall he did not have a fun time we can still see how this goes so right here the knockback was super delayed and i was able to get a bunch of crits

On him right here and win the first round having high ping sucks in 1.16 pvp both for the person who has the high ping and the person who’s fighting the person with the high ping and the reason for that is 1.16 pvp it’s all about being accurate with your

Hits and it’s hard to be accurate when you’re lagging and when your opponent is lagging as you can see right there again i saw that he was loading his crossbow so i immediately brought up my shield again being aware of your opponent’s body language what they’re doing

Super important and i ended up shooting him right there with the crossbow and winning the game i knew he was pretty low so i figured a crossbow shot if he was low might kill him and ended up killing him so i won that round alright going into the third round we

Trade hits for a little bit i end up getting a bunch of crits on him and he ends up running away and i go for a crossbow shot and i end up killing him with the crossbow shot all right now he’s swapped over to a sword kit we trade hits

He runs he reconsiders for a second you know maybe i’ll attack nope he just runs a bit more running actually i lied there’s a lot more running he tries to get a gap off but i end up getting a bunch of crits on him and killing him i’m sure annie would

Have absolutely just destroyed me if he had good ping but you know he didn’t have good ping so i was able to just barely get the win right here i’m only joking good fight all right so the last youtuber i thought was celestia rayne and i’m just going to

Call her dakota because it feels weird calling her celestia ring because i know her anyway um we started off with an accent she okay just like the other two fights so let’s just get started so you actually she actually played this whole thing very defensively which is

Kind of what you’re supposed to do in accent shield pvp where trading hits in the beginning right here although she’s just getting normal hits on me and i’m just getting crits so i know i’m at a pretty decent health advantage my crossbow didn’t load there so again whenever she has her shield she

Always uses it which is a very good thing to do in especially in shield pvp she noticed i was loading my crossbow just there because it wasn’t loaded and i loaded it and turned around so she saw that i was trying to do that and blocked her shield

Which is very good but i ended up just disabling her shield and going for a crossbow shot there and won the first game all right so now we’re on a sword kit right now she actually ends up getting the first hit on me right here and we’re kind of trading hits

A lot of people do with sword pvp is they act like it’s axe pvp but quicker so they’ll jump every time they try to go for a hit they’ll like back up and then jump at you hit you with a sword and then back up that’s not really what you want to do

With sword pvp sword pvp you just want to get one hit after the other and try to get as many hits as possible you don’t want to like jump at the person get a hit and then run away i mean the sword has a faster attack speed for a reason

The one benefit of doing that though is she’s making it a lot harder for me to get combos on her because she’s giving me a lot of knock back which makes the first part of the battle pretty even and we’re trading hits here but i’m getting more crits on her and she’s just

Getting normal hits on me i eat a gapple good idea considering i’m pretty low i know she’s even lower than i am because she’s not letting me get anywhere near here while she’s eating the gapple all right right here i get a bunch of

Crits on her and she tries to go for the gapple but it was too late alright that’s all i had for this video i hope you learned something new and i hope you get better at 1.16 pvp if you have questions about anything put them in the comments or at me on

Twitter i’ll try the best i can to answer them also this video took a lot of effort it’s really the first major video on my channel so if you could subscribe like watch the video and repeat for more views and watch time that would all be greatly appreciated thanks for watching