Need some advice for a first game project

For a while I been working on a fighting game in which I’m using characters from a tutorial for the moment until I’m able to put mine in without problems, so far the camera works like a fighting game.

Later on I will work on the guy now here’s the deal I’m trying to make them able to hit each other I know I need to add some kind of collider to the hands for punch but how to make it work? Send messages? And how do I do it in code?

I get some what the concept and what if the colliders on the hands are having contact with the character controller if I put it in what do I do then?

you need to set the colliders isTrigger to true, then script can understand if you collide with sth.

Thanks I never tought trying to make them triggers