Is there a way to detect lethal blows on humanoids (and prevent the humanoid from dying)

[ew_iscool (professional)]

im trying to make a cool seamless phase 2 to a boss that requires you to fully empty its health-bar before it does a cool cutscene and actually phase 2s

only issue is: i have LITERALLY no idea how to detect a lethal blow and stop it from well, being lethal, because if you empty a health bar; well, the health is empty, which means the boss DIES

[DiscoDino01 (nullptr)]

Maybe make the boss’ health very low when 0

local connection = {}
connection[1] = Boss.Humanoid.HealthChanged:Connect(function(health: number)
    if health <= 0 then
        Boss.Humanoid.Health = 0.0001 -- or some number
        -- do cutscene


        connection[1]:Disconnect()
    end
end)

[ew_iscool (professional)]

wouldnt when the boss’ health being 0 just immediately kill it, regardless of what scripts detecting it set the health back to

[ltsmrsky]

If you want to prevent an npc from dying, I’m pretty sure disabling it’s dead state should work.

Something like:

Humanoid:SetStateEnabled(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Dead, false)

In addition to this, you probably won’t need to detect a lethal blow, since you can just re enable the dead state after the phase 2 transition.