How Would I Make A Debounce For This Animation Script

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#1

local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Mouse = Player:GetMouse()

Mouse.KeyDown:connect(function(key)
if key == “f” then
local an = script.Parent.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.Animation)
an:Play()
script.Parent.RightHand.Touched:connect(function(hit)
if hit.Parent.Humanoid == true then
hit.Parent.Humanoid:TakeDamage(Player.leaderstats.Strength.Value)
end
end)
end
end)

#2

I think, Idk.

local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Mouse = Player:GetMouse()

local deb = false

Mouse.KeyDown:connect(function(key)
	if deb then return end
	deb = true
	if key == "f" then
		local an = script.Parent.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(script.Animation)
		an:Play()
		script.Parent.RightHand.Touched:connect(function(hit)
			if hit.Parent.Humanoid == true then
				hit.Parent.Humanoid:TakeDamage(Player.leaderstats.Strength.Value)
				deb = false
			end
		end)
	end
end)
#3

I would add a variable called debounce and set it to false, then modify your if statement so it includes that if debounce is false, it will run:
if key == “f” and debounce == false then.
After that, set the debounce to true, and then put all your usual code in.

After you deal the damage you’ll wanna set your debounce back to false so your code will run again, but you don’t wanna do it right away. For this, you’ll want to add a task.wait(), then set the debounce to false.

On a side not, I would not recommend damaging the player on the client, as they could mess around with the hit.parent.humanoid:TakeDamage(Player.leaderstats.Strength.Value) line and make it deal however much damage they want, or they could literally just delete the entire touched event all together. I also don’t think this damage will show up on the server.

The way I would go about this is after playing the animation, fire a remote event to the server which will handle the damage, and then after that, do your debounce.