Item with cooldown

how?

I've found a WAY easier way to do this by using entity nbt data! 

Just add a nbt data to the player, for example : ("LghtRodCooldown", 100) and a true/false nbt statement : ("LghtRodToggle", true) when the player logs in, (join event). Then when on the right click event of the rod, (add an if statement that (if the toggle is true) summon lightning and make the current entities "LghtRodToggle" false). Then add an event for the player tick update event and make the cooldown decrease if it is not zero && if the "LghtRodToggle" is false. Then if the cooldown is zero, set the toggle to true and set the cooldown back to 100.

 

(100ticks is the equivalent of 5 real life seconds)

Yes but how

some fun necroposting is happening here, well 

now the way for this is just to use "set item in cooldown for X ticks" inside item procedures, it blocks out some actions like right clicking, the other who aren't blocked needs to be put on cooldown manually with nbt tags