Recently i've been into play normal smp's for a while no pvp servers

And i saw a video from (intel edits) on how to get good at minecraft pvp and i was shocked on how many sword techniques there is like deflections and what not and i was wondering do i really have to learn all of these stuff to not get quick dropped? Like i feel that some of these techniques aren't needed and won't be able to use them.

Like i tried learning some of these techniques but i just couldn't lol

So what are like the essentials i need to learn to not get quickdropped in smp's and stand my ground.

Note: Im decent in sword pvp not good but decent i know the basic stuff still trying to learn some of the advanced stuff im like (HT5) max. And also i will be using a mace if that makes a diffrence in anything.

I remember seeing this guy ages ago and thinking how good he is, but that was years before I got into the comp mc community. Now he’s been on money smp and strength trials how good is he really? I see so many mixed opinions: some saying he’s insane like above flow and others saying he’s okay like clown level. How good is he really?

Recently I have been really confused on wht hotkey i should use for my webs currently I am extremely confused between mb5 and R but I have been playing on mb5 for somedays it works gud but I never saw any gud player's using tht I am really confused

My binds are currently

1-sword

2-blocks

3-axe

4-gaps

Q-water

R-lava/potions

F-potions

C-pressure plates

Mb5-webs

I don't know I am not really sure wht to use if u guys can help out it would be really wonderful

I was doing sword pvp and I’m pretty new (like HT5) so my reach isn’t even that good in the first place and either me or them were lagging (probably me) and all the sudden they told me I had reach and hit them from 5 blocks. I’m just confused why they would even think that

MegaSMP without a rank calls for interesting methods of production this was from season 2 my base of the past

I thought the mass techno glaze ended... but I was wrong.

It's been a while since the last time I payed any attention to MCC. Saw this post from https://www.youtube.com/@SB737Clips-HardcoreLS on the homepage and decided to check it out. The second top comment blew my mind.

This is the kind of situation so stupid to the point where I don't even have to explain anything.