:TakeDamage or Humanoid.Health = Humanoid.Health - damage

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#1

I’m not the best scripter in the world. What are some ways that I can figure which one takes the least amount of performance?
Or can someone with experience just tell me straight up which method uses up less performance and I can go about my day?

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#2

Depends, the only difference is that :TakeDamage() respects force fields. So if the player has a force field on them, they won’t be damaged.

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#3

I’m sorry. I didn’t ask for that, you clearly read my post wrong.
Which one uses the least performance?

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#4

Back to what you said… I know that it checks for the forcefields already. Sorry I came pretty blunt with what you said. Maybe as I think about it more, a built in function that requires checks for a forcefield would be more detrimental to performance…

So… in conclusion, don’t use :TakeDamage if you’re trying to save performance.

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#5

You’re missing my point. TakeDamage is literally just:

if humanoid.Parent:FindFirstChildOfType("ForceField") == nil then
    humanoid.Health -= damage
end

You will see maybe 1-2ms of difference, but it won’t actually affect performance negatively at all.

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#6

There aren’t any significant performance differences between either of them. I prefer to use :TakeDamage() mostly because it merely feels easier and trusty.

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#7

My friend used tick…
it’s 250% better to use Humanoid.Health = Humanoid.Health - damage
rather than :TakeDamage()

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#8

I got these results:
Over 20,000 tests, less than a millisecond (500 microseconds about) difference in average. It’s won’t be noticeable at all.

Edit: There’s something wrong with my math, give me a sec.

With the actual results (I forgot to divide lol):

These were averaged out over 1 million tests for each -= and TakeDamage. The difference is 102.26893424987994763 nano seconds, which is quite literally no difference from our standpoint, but yes -= is technically faster than TakeDamage if you want to ignore forcefields.

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#9

In all honestly, it clearly doesn’t matter which is used and I’m not too sure why you’re asking this question. The difference between the 2 are so slightly insignificant it won’t change how it performs even if used thousands of times.

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#10

I don’t know, I’d guess it would be :TakeDamage() but i’m not sure, I think that probably methods perform about the same, if one is faster than the other, then it’s faster by a half of a half of a a half of a half of a half of a second.

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#11

I already pointed out the solution.

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#12

I already pointed out the solution [2].

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