Believe me or not I encoutered several prot helmet ane boots and it was impossible to beat them via melee, so I tried to knock them in the void but it often ends up me gettung killed.
It doesn’t take 1/2 more hits. Once I fought a protection armored guy, @BlueSlimeMC was watching me. I strafed, hit him a lot more and still died. with him ending with 3 hearts.
I had absorption hearts, idk about him (cough Show killer’s absorption hearts). Like I really had 5 more hearts and he still killed me.
Protection is B R O K EN. Seriously. It needs a fix.
(take my vote)