How do I make my hitbox system more efficient?

I'm making a fighting game, and I want it so players can continue attacking the monster by spam clicking (or hold clicking), but the current system I have isn't working. I have it so when the weapon handle is touched and if the name of the object that touched it is a 'Hitbox' then it will fire the rest of the code. It works but you have to keep moving in order for the touched event to fire otherwise if you stand still and keep clicking it doesn't do any damage.

How do I make this better? This is in a local script, in a server script I just subtract the value from the health that I sent over, it's nothing much. I was thinking maybe checking if the Hitbox was hit instead? Or should I instead check if the player is within range of the hitbox using magnitude and then if they click with the weapon it would fire to the server? I don't know the best approach for this.

local tool = script.Parent
local handle = script.Parent.Handle
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer

repeat wait() until player.Character

local character = player.Character
local humanoid = character:WaitForChild('Humanoid')

local animation = Instance.new('Animation')
animation.Parent = script.Parent
animation.AnimationId = 'rbxassetid://210638956'

local animTrack = humanoid:LoadAnimation(animation)

local canAttack = true

tool.Activated:Connect(function()
    if canAttack then
        animTrack:Play()
        handle.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
            if hit.Parent ~= character and hit.Name == 'Hitbox' then
                if canAttack and hit.Parent:FindFirstChild('Hitbox') then
                    local damageEvent = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild('damageEvent')
                    if damageEvent then
                        damageEvent:FireServer(script.Parent.Damage.Value)
                        wait()
                        canAttack = false
                    end
                end
            end
        end)
        animTrack.KeyframeReached:Connect(function()
            canAttack = true
        end)
    end
    wait(.25)
    canAttack = true
end)