[1.21+] Axe & Shield PvP Community

Axe & Shield Community—Features a friendly & active community, with a tier based ranking system.

#698 in Esports

About

Community size

31.6Kmembers

Member growth

Net change: +15
7-day rate: +0.05%

Oct 4 – 11, 2026

About this data

Approximately 31,568 members in this snapshot.

Membership increased by 15 between October 4, 2026 and October 11, 2026.

Ranks #698 by membership among 6,782 Esports servers tracked by Deepcord.

Member change includes joins and departures across observations roughly a week apart. The growth rate is normalized to seven days.

Last observed: October 11, 2026. Compared with October 4, 2026.

Server Details

Often referred to as Axe PvP, Axe and Shield is a defensive, barebones kit that is often seen as the staple 1.9 kit, as was seen in the iconic 1.9 Dream vs Technoblade fight, which brought a large portion of the current playerbase into the 1.9 community. Axe is a good starting kit with a very high skill ceiling and currently has the most competitive HT3 pool. Many top players from other gamemodes struggle to perform in axe due to the short time to kill, unique defensive gameplay, and general strategic nature. The axe community and competitive practice are extremely rooted in PvP Legacy, where the kit was originally popularized.