[Python] Pygame: How do I get rid of the jump delay when the enemy does his attack animation +...

This is my first post on stackoverflow so I thank you for your patience in advance. I'm creating my first game using Pygame and I am running into an issue where when my enemy jumps after his attack animation, instead of simultaneously. I am trying to make it so that the non-blue enemy jumps at the same time as its attack animation. Currently, the character jumps and then does the animation. However I think I have implemented the gravity wrong because after the first jump, it jumps again but shoots into the sky...

I am also running into an issue where I am trying to only have one type of enemy have the ability to jump, but both are affected even though I have specified only non-blue enemies to jump.

I've tried changing the 'if self.image == self.kick' into a while loop, but that crashed the game, I've also tried making the gravity -= 5, which gets rid of the second shooting-up jump but now they aren't jumping high enough.

any help or advice is appreciated

class Opps(pygame.sprite.Sprite):

def __init__(self, type):

super().__init__()

if type == 'blue':
b_idle = pygame.image.load('/tiny embers jam/graphics/opps/blue/b_idle.png').convert_alpha()
b_bounce = pygame.image.load('/tiny embers jam/graphics/opps/blue/b_bounce.png').convert_alpha()
self.frames = [b_idle,b_bounce,b_idle,b_bounce]
self.kick = pygame.image.load('/tiny embers jam/graphics/opps/blue/b_kick.png').convert_alpha()
else:
p_idle = pygame.image.load('/tiny embers jam/graphics/opps/pink/p_idle.png').convert_alpha()
p_bounce = pygame.image.load('/tiny embers jam/graphics/opps/pink/p_bounce.png').convert_alpha()
self.frames = [p_idle,p_bounce,p_idle,p_bounce]
self.kick = pygame.image.load('/tiny embers jam/graphics/opps/pink/p_jump.png').convert_alpha()

self.gravity = 0
self.y_pos = 280
self.animation_index = 0
self.frames.append(self.kick)
self.image = self.frames[self.animation_index]
self.rect = self.image.get_rect(midbottom = (randint(660,900),self.y_pos))

def apply_gravity(self):
self.gravity += 1
self.rect.y += self.gravity
if self.rect.bottom >= 280:
self.rect.bottom = 280

def animation_state(self):
self.animation_index += 0.1
if self.animation_index >= len(self.frames): self.animation_index = 0
self.image = self.frames[int(self.animation_index)]

if type != 'blue':
if self.image == self.kick:
self.gravity -= 6

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