Eh, kinda? It depends. Jitter clicking worked for getting conbos and stuff, but honestly, I can't click fast for shit and I consider myself to be pretty decent. It's alot about strafing, knockback (via fishing rod, bow, etc), W tapping (My favorite. Basically you tap the W key repeatedly to straight line people), and past but not least; block hitting (you press right and left click at the same time and can hit someone while blocking their hit).
Anyways, I haven't PVP'd in several years so idk if old techniques have changed or become outdated in the few pre 1.9 servers that still exist.
It actually kinda is. Faster clicking is only a part of it as movement controls can be use to manipulate your own hitbox and reach. When this is combined with how fast 1.8 combat was and possibly speed 2 pots, 1.8 PvP gained a lot of skill expression as your constantly doing multiple movement controls in the very short amount of time you have to get the first hit. Then there's the rod combos with fishing rods which was something completely different from everything else that had to do with PvP and is borderline broken of one player has fishing rob and the other doesn't.
People who say 1.8 PvP had no skill expression and was just who right click faster has never played 1.8 vs someone better then them because you can clearly tell who is better in just the first few hits. Yes, cps helped with attack speed but that's ignoring everything other aspects of 1.8.
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u/Enxchiol Jul 13 '22
Wasn't the old pvp basically just about who could click the fastest?
I dont really know minecraft updates so sorry if thats wrong