@CrazymanJR Right after the Sentinel rolled out, I went on PvP and played Assasinations for quite a while. And I felt a change in PvP. Then I played a casual game of Eggwars on TeaParty and I felt a change in knockback, as consistent hits in 1.9 would result in throwing the guy of the island. Now I had to work more hard to throw someone off.
Also Golden Apples provide a good 2 hearts which take damage according to armour so maybe your opponent was on Gapples.
If you really have to break armour to fight, lol... anyways its still a strat and I don't offend it. The reason you can't hit him because you're too far away from him.It's hard to say right now. I have been busy. I have to play a little bit more to understand better how it changed the knockback.
Sometimes it feels like some hits are not registered. Also sometimes I can't hit the player, before he hits me. I don't mean only the first hit. One time I hit the other player over 10 times and he didn't take any damage, but when he finally hit me, I was able to hit him back and beat him. :)
Oh yeah, sometimes I keep constantly hitting the enemy to break their armor... I hope I won't get banned by doing that. (I don't use butterfly clicking method, but I'm still able to click pretty fast)
Have a nice day! :)
Also Golden Apples provide a good 2 hearts which take damage according to armour so maybe your opponent was on Gapples.