Axe VS Sword Which One is Better in Minecraft 1.20 – Java Edition

Axes and swords in minecraft are both great weapons for pvp and for fighting mobs but which one is better we’re gonna find that out today starting right now also very few people who watch my videos are actually subscribed so if you could subscribe to my youtube channel that

Would be really appreciated all of the information in this video is for minecraft java edition so be sure to keep that in mind now both axes and swords are great pvp weapons but which one is actually better and what uses do they both have well the sword has a base damage of 8

Attack damage and a 1.6 attack speed the higher the attack speed the quicker you can attack what’s also interesting is that whenever you hit something with a sword there’s a 0.625 recovery time till you can basically hit something again at the full power as in minecraft java edition

When you hit something or when you’re doing pvp you basically have a cool down between when you have effective hits and you can actually see that when i hit right next to my crosshair there’s a little sword that fills up and if i hit again before that sword is all the way

Filled up it’s basically not as effective as we’re in the pvp in 1.9 and after also something you can do with the sword that you cannot do with the axe is sweeping edge attacks this is especially improved by the sweeping edge enchantment but basically when you hit

Something all the mobs next to it are heard as well now what sweeping edge does is it basically just makes it so that the attack damage that is incurred to the mobs that are not the direct one you hit is up to 75 percent of the main

Attack whereas without that it’s only a small percentage of the main attack so if we hit it like this you’ll see they’re all hit now if we jump and hit the mob on the way down it’ll actually only hit one at once something like this because that’s a

Critical attack and that’s only working on one mob at a time something like this and to do a critical attack you want to hit a mob when you’re in the air basically falling down from a jump so it’s basically something like this and then hitting the mob on the way down

Like that and that will make the sword have more damage so for instance it says here attack damage is eight for the netherite sword but when you’re doing a critical attack that is hitting the mob on the way down like that it goes from eight attack damage to 12 attack damage

Which is of course a lot better what is the axis attack damage well it’s actually 10 so it is two higher than the sword and it has one attack speed meaning that it is slower than the sword so you can’t hit things as quickly with it before the cooldown is done also when

Doing a critical attack with the axe the attack damage is 15 instead of 10 so sort of like with the sword it goes from 8 to 12 the axe is 10 to 15 so it’s something good to know the axe is usually used as a tool not a weapon and

So when you use it as a weapon it is a very good use for it but it does make the durability go down by two instead of one i’ll shut it off right here we’re just gonna hit it like this and you’ll see the durability is

2029 instead of 2030 so it went down by two with just one hit like that if we hit another chicken here you’ll see we hit the grass here that should maybe take it down by one it’s actually not the right thing to hit so it wouldn’t if

We hit the chicken like this you’ll see that it went down by two again so your axis durability will be effectively about half of that 2031 or about 1015 whereas the swords durability will be higher than that as the sword’s base durability is 2031 as well and so you

Basically have double the durability on the sword as the axe which is something good to take note of if you’re going to be using this for combat now an amazing feature of the axe is that if you’re doing pvp and someone has a shield up

All you have to do is run towards them and hit their shield with your axe as you’re sprinting and that will disable their shield for five seconds if you just hit it without running there’s only a 25 percent chance of it being disabled but it’s still a very good thing to do

As with a sword you basically cannot disable that shield no matter what which certainly makes pvp with someone with a shield much more difficult to do with just a sword now what are the enchantments you can have on both of these weapons well these are some of

Them right here we can see here that we can have two different types of netherride axes so we can actually have sharpness and smite on axes which is quite interesting you could also put on their efficiency if you want that’ll actually make the chance of disabling a

Shield when you’re not sprinting to hit it be five percent higher per level of efficiency up to 50 chance with efficiency 5 because the base chance is 25 and so maybe you could do that if you want to have this also be well suited for that now of course smite 5 works the

Same on a sword as it does the axe and we’ll go more into that in a second here but overall the only real pvp based enchantment you can put on the netherrate axe is sharpness 5 and potentially efficiency 5 if you’re doing shield combat now for the sword you can

Also put on smite5 and sharpness 5 very useful things of course you can’t put efficiency 5 on a sword though it gives the sword a clear advantage over the axe and the enchantment area is that the sword can also have sweeping edge 3 looting 3 knock back 2 and fire aspect

2. now of course knock back too makes sense that when you hit a mob it goes further away sweeping edge 3 effects as i explained earlier where it basically makes these side mobs next to the main mob that you’re attacking get more damage from your sword fire aspect 2

Lights whatever you’re hitting on fire which can also cook meat and also looting three is incredibly important to have because it’s basically like fortune for the sword and so when you hit a mob you’ll get more drops from it like for instance from the chicken that would be

Raw chicken and feathers and so not being able to have any of these four enchantments on an axe is certainly something that is not good for the axe if you’re wanting these kinds of effects now with both of these weapons with their best sharpness and smite versions

Of the sword and the axe there are some different attack damage values we have here because of course they’re affected by those enchantments now the best sharpness sword has an 11 attack damage as you can see there in little box and it also has a 15 attack damage with

Critical hits for the axe sharpness 5 increases the attack damage to 13 with the critical attack being 18 damage and for the sword smite 5 gives you 8 attack damage base but if you’re hitting an undead mob so for instance a skeleton a zombie a wither things like that it is

20.5 attack damage and a whopping 24.5 attack damage if you’re trying to hit something with a critical hit also with the axe it’s even better so a smite 5x on undead mobs only has 22.5 attack damage and 27.5 attack damage when you’re doing a critical hit which is

Absolutely crazy as the wither itself only has 300 health so this kind of a sharpness 5 netherite axe could be extremely effective against something like that so these are the best versions of both of those now over here i have some husks and various types of armor

And no armor so we have here a husk in full netherrite armor enchanted with protection for here is a hasken full netherright armor full diamond armor protection 4 over here is just full diamond armor and this husk has nothing on it another reason why i chose husks is because husks including zombies and

Skeletons and other undead mobs like that as well have the exact same amount of health as the player as you can basically see here what pvp with this could be like now we’re going to first go with our smite 5 axe just like this which is especially specialized for

Things like the husk and undead mob one hit no critical attack instant kill the husk from full health which is pretty crazy with the sharpness 5 if we hit the husk here it does not instantly kill it but kills it in two hits however if we jump

And hit on the way down it actually also does not kill it as well so that’s something good to note is that you can only one hit kill these even with a critical attack if you have smite five also let’s do a test with the swords

Here now a sharpness five sword on our husk here is a two hit kill like that that would be the same for a player if we do a critical attack like this it’s also two hits as well of course it’s more damage just not enough to kill the

Mob in one hit which of course would not apply to pvp as no players are counted as undead mobs if we hit it like this you can see that’s a one hit kill there now let’s try something more that you’d probably be fighting let’s say an enchanted or enchanted diamond maybe

Even one of these of these weapons here i would say that a sharpness 5x is probably the best for pvp we’ll try that right here this is a full protection for diamond armor husk which of course has the same amount of health that a player

Would so we’re going to hit this and it should take about 11 critical hits to kill it and then on the 11th there it’s dead right like that now we’re going to try the exact same thing with a sharpness 5 sword instead of the sharpness 5x and see which one works better

14 and it took 14 hits to kill this from scratch with the sharpness 5 sword here every time being a critical hit right there now of course with enchanted and unenchanted netherite these numbers would only be more but you can see overall that the axe is a bit of a

Better weapon however what is good to take note of is the attack speed so because the axe is a little bit slower this is probably a better weapon for very quick close kind of combat like this as if you mishit with the axe the amount of cooldown you have is a full

Second so let’s say we’re going to hit the mob and let’s say we’re going to be moving we kind of miss or maybe we kind of miss like this we’re gonna have an entire second of being completely uneffective at killing it so it could be

A good idea to do maybe this if you want to go for more of a quicker approach now if you’re doing player versus enemy combat or basically player versus any mobs that are hostile towards you i would personally recommend probably a sharpness or a smite 5 sword and

Basically for the reason of the enchanted books and because looting 3 is just so important to have on a sword especially for things like getting wither skeleton skulls fighting skeletons for bones and bone meal things like that also fire aspect 2 is really important as you can basically cook food

From different animals that you kill sweeping edge 3 makes fighting enderman and just making a bunch of mobs being killed at once be really useful and knockback 2 is great for creepers basically needed for creepers if you don’t want to die by killing them but overall i would say that a sharpness 5x

Is best for pvp and that a sharpness 5 or smite5 sword is best for fighting mobs now here’s something interesting here every single different type of tool of course has 6 different variants now everything i said here is true for every other variant just some of these attack

Damage numbers will be smaller but the proportion should be the same but here’s what’s quite interesting we’re gonna look at the attack damage of all of these now the wooden axe has seven attack damage the golden axe has seven attack damage and the stone axe has nine attack damage

That’s right that actually means that the stone axe has more attack damage than the diamond sword by two attack damage points or that a wooden axe has just as much attack damage as a diamond sword does which is pretty crazy to think about however because the wooden

Axe has a very slow 0.8 attack speed the diamond sword is literally two times quicker than it making that be not quite true but technically it is the same amount of attack damage it’s interesting to see as well the difference between the netherrite axe and the netherite

Sword isn’t actually that much but if we look at how these attack damages go down on the swords here it’s four for wooden sword four for golden sword five for stone six for iron seven for diamond eight for another right it kind of just progression chains up very simply like

That however with the axes here all the wooden axe and the golden axe have the same attack damage as each other much like the golden sword and wooden sword the stone axe iron axe and diamond axe all have the exact same attack damage but they do have slightly increasing

Attack speed with of course the netherride axe being one more than these with 10 attack damage however if you’re in the first couple days of a world i would highly recommend making a stone axe because with 9 attack damage which is a very large amount for how easy it

Is to craft that’s going to be a great way to kill those mobs early game as well as maybe some players if it’s a pvp server and to get an item with more attack damage than that not just the same amount like an iron axe it’ll

Literally have to take you all the way up to a netherride axe as even the netherrite sword has less attack damage than the stone axe this is a very very good early game weapon to have if you’re going to try and defend yourself then overall i would say that both axes and

Swords are very useful weapons in minecraft pvp and certainly up to you which one you want to use as your main weapon but i would suggest having both on hand as they both have very unique and useful uses i hope you enjoyed that video about axes and swords inside of

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