How to change a string value on leaderstats?

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(plr)
	if plr.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
		plr.leaderstats.Area = "Noob"
	end
end)

What I wanted to do is whenever you touch a block, it changes the value of "Area" on the leaderstats to the name of that area. I've tried many different things but it doesn't seem to work.

The reason to why you're unable to change the value, is because you forgot to add .Value at line 3.

-- instead of 
plr.leaderstats.Area = "Noob"

-- change it to
plr.leaderstats.Area.Value = "Noob"

It's as simple as that

EDIT: To fix the error 'leaderstat is not a valid member of MeshPart' you have to set the leaderstats values through player and not the character. This is something that i completely forgot about.

script.Parent.Touched:Connect(function(plr)
	-- this line retrieves the player from the character
	local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(plr.Parent)

	if plr.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
		-- we change "plr" to our new "player" variable instead
		player.leaderstats.Area = "Noob"
	end
end)