Answers online range from “they don’t do much damage against netherite armor” to “use a shield” or “fight them with bow and arrow”. But you don’t start with any of those things and it can take a long time until you obtain them.
I mean right at the beginning, where you haven’t found any iron yet and therefore can’t craft a shield or armor. There legitimately doesn’t seem to be any reliable way to kill them without losing half your health. And they are EVERYWHERE. The only thing I can do is run away and dig a hole or pillar into the sky and wait until dawn, and if it’s raining even that doesn’t work.
I have no problems fighting zombies or spiders or creepers. But skeletons are like 1000x harder. What gives?
hahaaa you actually thought you could… well for your notice it doesn’t work like that, you can just hide like the rest but im about 3 steps from the nearest skeleton