Animator.AnimationPlayed not detecting animation until 2nd time playing it

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I’ve created my own Client VFX system, where, upon hitting a certain input, a animation plays and sends a remote event to a server. The server deals with the hitbox and welding the characters together and whatnot, and I use ‘FireAllClients()’ to send the VFX to the client. In the client, I use a module script to handle the VFX. My problem, however, when I try to use ‘Animator.AnimationPlayed’, it doesn’t detect the specific animation (Kamehameha) until the 2nd or 3rd time using the move (playing the animation).

Local Script (handles animations and remote events):

KameAnimation.Event:Connect(function()
	
       --Redefining variables since, after death, the variables turn to nil.

	char = plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait()
	hum = char:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	animator = hum:WaitForChild("Animator")
        
       -- I do attribute checks on the server, but I'm only checking here because I have a 'No Cooldown' feature, and if it's enabled, the animation would play multiple times.

	if char:GetAttribute("Attacking",true) then return end
	if char:GetAttribute("Animation",true) then return end
	if char:GetAttribute("Ragdolled",true) then return end
	if char:GetAttribute("Stunned",true) then return end
	if char:GetAttribute("Blocking",true) then return end
	if char:GetAttribute("Dashing",true) then return end
	if char:GetAttribute("CantAttack",true) then return end

	if hum.Health <= 0 then return end
		
	local function LoadKHHAnim(char)
		local KHHAnim = animations:WaitForChild("Attacks"):WaitForChild("Kamehameha"):WaitForChild("KameHameHa")

		local currAnim 

		currAnim = KHHAnim

		return currAnim

	end
			
	local kameAnim = LoadKHHAnim(char)

	local playkameAnim = animator:LoadAnimation(kameAnim)
		
	playkameAnim:Play()
	
       --Hitbox/Weld/Sanity checks on server.

	KameEvent:FireServer()
	
end)

--FireAllClients event

KameVFX.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(character : Model)
	
	local KameModule = require(script:WaitForChild("Kamehameha"))

	KameModule.MakeVFX(character)

end)

Module Script (handles VFX and Animation Keyframes):


local module = {}

local effects = script:WaitForChild("Effects")

function module.MakeVFX(character : Model)
		
	local humRP : BasePart = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
	local hum : Humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
	local Animator : Animator = hum:WaitForChild("Animator")

	local connection : RBXScriptConnection
			
	connection = Animator.AnimationPlayed:Connect(function(kameAnim : AnimationTrack) 
						
		if kameAnim.Animation.AnimationId == "rbxassetid://16552578293" then --Checking if animation IS the Kamehameha animation. But for some reason, the code doesn't recognize it as the Kamehameha animation until the 2nd or 3rd time running the code.
			
			kameAnim.KeyframeReached:Connect(function(kf : KeyframeMarker)
				
				if kf == "Charge" then

					local LeftArm : BasePart = character:WaitForChild("Left Arm")

					local Kameball : BasePart = effects:WaitForChild("Kamehameha"):WaitForChild("KameBall"):Clone()
					Kameball.Parent = character

					Kameball.Massless = true
					Kameball.CanCollide = false
					Kameball.Anchored = false

					local KameWeld = Instance.new("Weld",LeftArm)
					KameWeld.Name = "Kameweld"
					KameWeld.Part1 = LeftArm
					KameWeld.Part0 = Kameball
					KameWeld.Parent = character
					KameWeld.C0 = CFrame.new(0.25,1,-0.05)

					local PullEffect = effects:WaitForChild("Kamehameha"):WaitForChild("Pull"):Clone()
					PullEffect.Parent = character

					PullEffect.CFrame = Kameball.CFrame

				end

				if kf == "Shoot1" then

					local LeftArm : BasePart = character:WaitForChild("Left Arm")

					local kametrail : BasePart = effects:WaitForChild("Kamehameha"):WaitForChild("KameTrail"):Clone()
					kametrail.Parent = character

					local kameball : BasePart = character:FindFirstChild("KameBall")

					local PullEffect : BasePart = character:FindFirstChild("Pull")

					PullEffect:Destroy()

					kametrail.CFrame = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart").CFrame * CFrame.new(-0.15,0.05,-23)
					kametrail.Orientation = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart").Orientation + Vector3.new(0,90,0)

				end

				if kf == "Shoot4" then
					task.spawn(function()
						character:WaitForChild("KameBall"):Destroy()
						character:WaitForChild("KameTrail"):Destroy()
						character:WaitForChild("Kameweld"):Destroy()
					end)
				end
				
			end)
			
		end
		
		kameAnim.Stopped:Connect(function()

			if connection then
				connection:Disconnect()
				connection = nil
			end

			local KB : BasePart = character:FindFirstChild("KameBall")
			local KT : BasePart = character:FindFirstChild("KameTrail")
			local L : BasePart = character:FindFirstChild("Lightning")
			local P : BasePart = character:FindFirstChild("Pull")

			if KB then KB:Destroy() end
			if KT then KT:Destroy() end
			if L then L:Destroy() end
			if P then P:Destroy() end
		end)
		
	end)
end

return module

As I said, the ‘Animator.AnimationPlayed’ function does not detect the Kamehameha animation until the 2nd or 3rd time using it… I’ve looked everywhere but I physically cannot find a solution.

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