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Master Minecraft crystal PvP with a practical guide to landing devastating hits and surviving tougher fights. Learn the hit crystal step by step, from keybinds and timing to inventory setup, pre-gapping, potions, pearls, totems, and slow-falling arrows.
The tutorial also covers double taps, butterfly crystals, managing aggressive opponents, and how server ping affects placement speed, with fight commentary showing the techniques in action. A focused Minecraft PvP guide for players learning crystal combat, improving their mechanics, and preparing to dominate a server.
The tutorial also covers double taps, butterfly crystals, managing aggressive opponents, and how server ping affects placement speed, with fight commentary showing the techniques in action. A focused Minecraft PvP guide for players learning crystal combat, improving their mechanics, and preparing to dominate a server.
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00:00Have you ever wondered what the secret is to becoming a god at Minecraft PvP?
00:04Have you ever wanted to slice down your opponent's HP in one hit?
00:07Well, in that case, Crystal PvP is perfect for you.
00:10If you're unfamiliar with Crystal PvP, it is the highest form of PvP in Minecraft,
00:14requiring the most practice to master, but also being the most rewarding.
00:17In this video, I, Raspun, am going to teach you everything you need to know
00:21in order to master Crystal PvP and become unbeatable.
00:24Let's start with the basics and see why Crystals are so strong.
00:31End Crystals, which are able to be crafted in survival using this recipe,
00:35have some of the highest damage output of any explosive in the game.
00:38That's a lot of damage!
00:39One Crystal does the same amount of damage as a charged creeper.
00:41However, there are a few drawbacks.
00:43Crystals must be placed on obsidian or bedrock,
00:45and only do max damage when they are at the same level as a player or mom.
00:48So you may be thinking, well, that's not very practical to use.
00:51But wait, there's a technique that every Crystal PvPer must know.
00:55I introduce to you, the Hit Crystal.
00:57By hitting your opponent into the air with a sword,
00:59it effectively puts them standing at the same level as the Crystal,
01:02which lets you do maximum damage.
01:03But you're probably thinking, how did he just do that?
01:06Let me explain.
01:06The Hit Crystal requires you to have some muscle memory and quick fingers,
01:09but it becomes very easy with some practice.
01:11Here are the exact steps to perform one.
01:13Step 1.
01:14Run forward and hit your enemy with your sword.
01:16This is easier with the Knockback 1 enchantment,
01:18since the increased knockback gives you more time to do the following steps.
01:21Next, you're going to need to place an obsidian and crystal next to them while they're in midair.
01:25In order to effectively do this, you're going to need to custom keybind
01:28to two hotkeys you're comfortable with.
01:30I use X and Q, but you can use anything you're comfortable with really,
01:33as long as you can hit them fast.
01:34With the crystal placed, all that's left to do is explode it by left clicking.
01:37If done correctly, you'll one-shot someone in full protection for netherite armor.
01:41Something that will make hitcrystalling a lot easier,
01:43is by applying slow falling with a multi-shot crossbow.
01:46When your opponent falls down slower, it gives you more time to form the technique.
01:49Of course, you could always just crystal someone from below a ledge, which works,
01:53but against good players, they'll just pearl down and hit crystal you.
01:57Apart from the hit crystal, there are several other techniques that are more advanced,
02:00but we'll get to that later in the video, so stay tuned.
02:03But now that you're familiar with the most basic technique,
02:05let's talk about what you actually need to bring to battle.
02:10Your inventory is extremely important for crystal PvP.
02:13Unlike other game modes, where you're only using a couple items,
02:15you're going to need to realize every inventory slot for crystal PvP,
02:18because of how dangerous it is.
02:20Here's a standard inventory that will ensure you success against the average player.
02:23Ender pearls are very important, as they let you engage and disengage from battle quickly.
02:27Potions are self-explanatory, and will let you speed around your opponent and hit hard.
02:31Make sure they're 1 minute and 30 second versions, which gives you the stronger effects.
02:34Totems are also a crucial part of your inventory, since you're going to be taking a lot of fatal hits,
02:38and they allow you to stay in the battle past death.
02:40You want to have a totem in your offhand at all times.
02:42The sword is necessary for the hit crystal, with the knockback 1 enchantment as mentioned before.
02:46Golden apples are the best source of healing and food, a crossbow, and 30 second slow falling arrows,
02:51for applying slow falling to make the hit crystal easier.
02:53Max out armor with blast protection on the leggings, so you take less damage from crystals.
02:57Experience bottles to heal your armor with mending, a pickaxe in case you need to mine obsidian or dig,
03:01and of course your obsidian and crystals.
03:03You can organize your inventory however you'd like, and even come up with a weird hotbar like me.
03:07And a little fun fact, I actually created the crystal kit, which is used today on PvP Legacy.
03:12With the inventory out of the way, let's take a look at the average game plan in a crystal PvP
03:16match.
03:20So when you first get into a game, the first thing you want to do is something called pre-gapping.
03:24There's a secret stat in Minecraft called saturation, which lets you heal and take less damage,
03:28so by pre-gapping up to 3 times before engaging, you can maximize this and give yourself the advantage.
03:32After you pre-gap, use speed and strength potions.
03:35You can either throw them down in instant motion or directly up to give yourself an extra 10 seconds on
03:38each,
03:39whichever you choose is up to you.
03:40But if you want to be safer, you want to throw them straight down so your enemy can't knock you
03:43out of the effects.
03:44Next, load your crossbow and apply slowfalling.
03:46Keep in mind you'll need to shoot them again after 30 seconds, since that's how long the effect lasts per
03:50arrow.
03:50You can see here, I was just trying to trade hit crystals with my opponent.
03:53I gange again and get in a good hit crystal, but he doesn't pop, so I keep pursuing since I
03:57know he's low, and then he does.
03:59I apply slowfall again, and then we continue to hit crystal.
04:02You can see we struggle here since the knockback is random, but he eventually gets a good one on me,
04:06and so I have to pearl away and heal. Make sure whenever you heal to pearl away,
04:10since they're going to be close to you and you don't want to die.
04:12I eventually got him in a good hit crystal, and then followed up since I knew he's low, and I
04:16ended up winning.
04:24Let's talk about some more advanced crystal techniques, starting with the double tap.
04:28To perform a double tap, it's quite simple really. You just place more than two crystals,
04:32and yeah, it does more damage. But looking to find something even more advanced,
04:36we can move to the butterfly crystal, where you place two obsidians and two crystals before your
04:41opponent hits the ground. This one's a bit harder to do, and requires a lot of hockey practice,
04:45but again, like the hit crystal, if you practice it enough, it becomes quite easy.
04:49Now, there is one more technique that I created that I haven't talked about yet,
04:53and that's because not a lot of people can do it, but if you're wondering,
04:56the rocket crystal is where you make your opponent fly into the atmosphere.
05:00And if you're really interested in learning that, well, I made a whole video about that
05:03that I'll put in the top right now. I'm not going to go too in detail in this video,
05:06because it's quite a different strategy, but yeah, go check that out if you want.
05:10Really quickly, I just want to touch on the aspect of ping, or your connection to a server.
05:14You see, in crystal, ping is what lets you place faster or slower. If you live close to a server
05:18host,
05:19and have lower MS numbers, then you're going to be able to place a lot faster,
05:22as compared to someone who's in a different region, and will have higher MS. Due to this,
05:26to give yourself an advantage, play a crystal server that is close to where you live.
05:35What you're about to see is a big step up from the last fight, because this player is
05:38way more experienced, and I'm going to commentate on what it was doing,
05:41so you can see how to play against a skilled player. So the first thing you might notice is
05:44that people, when they get good, are way more aggressive, and you have to be careful,
05:47because they will try to kill you at every second. To counteract this, pearls are your friend,
05:51because you can use them to engage and disengage at your own will.
05:56Here we're just trading hit crystals, and you can actually put an obsidian on top of one so they
06:00can't place, but I ended up getting low, so I had to pearl away twice here. I go in for
06:04another
06:04engage, but you'll notice after I pop, I don't repotion, because I know he's low at this point,
06:08and I might be able to get a totem, but I wasn't successful, so I had to run again. And
06:12since he's
06:12playing aggressive, I expected him to follow me, so I had to pearl yet again, and again. If I didn't,
06:16I'd probably die there. Now if you're pearling away, something you can do is hold two totems,
06:20and it makes you invincible, since it always pops your hotbar one first, and that gives you enough
06:23time to open your inventory, and I'll pan another one. And you can see that demonstrated here,
06:27as I hold another totem, so it's impossible to die. Something you can do on a ledge is predict
06:30a pearl, and actually catch it, hitting them, and damaging them. So I did that there, and followed
06:34up, since I know he was low, and he did pop from that. And then I kept playing aggro, since
06:37I know
06:38he was still low, because he didn't heal yet. You'll notice that every time I pop a totem,
06:41I'll repotion, because you lose the effects when you lose a totem. And the way I do it so fast
06:45is by
06:45using hotkeys, just like the crystals. Here I do a butterfly crystal, but with a pearl added in.
06:51I continue to play aggressively here, since I know he's low, and you can abuse that possibly
06:54killing your opponent. Here's a perfect example of the invincible totem shot I was talking about
06:59earlier. I even chained three totems together here. We had a long fight, but eventually died
07:03from butterfly crystal. GG. And with that, that is my crystal PvP guide. I hope you guys learned
07:11something, and hopefully now you can dominate some Minecraft servers with some practice. If
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