How do I make an attack

I want to make my it to when my sword collides with the enemy it loses health is the best way to make the sword a seperate object or to spawn an object when animation is playing or is there a simpler way.

Yeah you can keep it a separate object so that you can have different weapons. Here is an example, expanding on a topDown.capx example I did last night for —

The sword follows image point 1 of the player, every tick. During the attack animation I simply move move image point 1 of the player.

Example.capx

thank you its working