diff --git a/src/main/java/ch/njol/skript/bukkitutil/HealthUtils.java b/src/main/java/ch/njol/skript/bukkitutil/HealthUtils.java
index 20b5120a0f1..be8675ccabb 100644
--- a/src/main/java/ch/njol/skript/bukkitutil/HealthUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/ch/njol/skript/bukkitutil/HealthUtils.java
@@ -26,13 +26,13 @@
 import org.bukkit.damage.DamageSource;
 import org.bukkit.damage.DamageType;
 import org.bukkit.entity.Damageable;
+import org.bukkit.entity.LivingEntity;
 import org.bukkit.event.entity.EntityDamageEvent;
 import org.bukkit.event.entity.EntityDamageEvent.DamageCause;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
 
 import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
 import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
-import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 
 public class HealthUtils {
 
@@ -112,8 +112,11 @@ public static double getFinalDamage(EntityDamageEvent e) {
 		return e.getFinalDamage() / 2;
 	}
 	
-	public static void setDamage(EntityDamageEvent e, double damage) {
-		e.setDamage(damage * 2);
+	public static void setDamage(EntityDamageEvent event, double damage) {
+		event.setDamage(damage * 2);
+		// Set last damage manually as Bukkit doesn't appear to do that
+		if (event.getEntity() instanceof LivingEntity)
+			((LivingEntity) event.getEntity()).setLastDamage(damage * 2);
 	}
 
 	@Nullable
diff --git a/src/main/java/ch/njol/skript/expressions/ExprLastDamage.java b/src/main/java/ch/njol/skript/expressions/ExprLastDamage.java
index 0b62cd60a9d..ede427b156f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/ch/njol/skript/expressions/ExprLastDamage.java
+++ b/src/main/java/ch/njol/skript/expressions/ExprLastDamage.java
@@ -19,47 +19,34 @@
  */
 package ch.njol.skript.expressions;
 
-import org.bukkit.entity.LivingEntity;
-import org.bukkit.event.Event;
-import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.Nullable;
-
 import ch.njol.skript.classes.Changer.ChangeMode;
 import ch.njol.skript.doc.Description;
 import ch.njol.skript.doc.Examples;
 import ch.njol.skript.doc.Name;
 import ch.njol.skript.doc.Since;
 import ch.njol.skript.expressions.base.SimplePropertyExpression;
-import ch.njol.skript.lang.Expression;
-import ch.njol.skript.lang.SkriptParser;
-import ch.njol.util.Kleenean;
 import ch.njol.util.coll.CollectionUtils;
+import org.bukkit.entity.LivingEntity;
+import org.bukkit.event.Event;
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
 
 @Name("Last Damage")
 @Description("The last damage that was done to an entity. Note that changing it doesn't deal more/less damage.")
 @Examples({"set last damage of event-entity to 2"})
 @Since("2.5.1")
 public class ExprLastDamage extends SimplePropertyExpression<LivingEntity, Number> {
-	
+
 	static {
 		register(ExprLastDamage.class, Number.class, "last damage", "livingentities");
 	}
-	
-	@Nullable
-	private ExprDamage damageExpr;
-	
-	@Override
-	public boolean init(Expression<?>[] exprs, int matchedPattern, Kleenean isDelayed, SkriptParser.ParseResult parseResult) {
-		damageExpr = new ExprDamage();
-		return true;
-	}
-	
+
 	@Nullable
 	@Override
 	@SuppressWarnings("null")
 	public Number convert(LivingEntity livingEntity) {
-		return damageExpr.get(livingEntity.getLastDamageCause())[0];
+		return livingEntity.getLastDamage() / 2;
 	}
-	
+
 	@Nullable
 	@Override
 	public Class<?>[] acceptChange(ChangeMode mode) {
@@ -72,35 +59,38 @@ public Class<?>[] acceptChange(ChangeMode mode) {
 				return null;
 		}
 	}
-	
+
+	@SuppressWarnings("ConstantValue")
 	@Override
 	public void change(Event e, @Nullable Object[] delta, ChangeMode mode) {
-		if (delta != null) {
+		if (delta != null && delta[0] instanceof Number) {
+			double damage = ((Number) delta[0]).doubleValue() * 2;
+
 			switch (mode) {
 				case SET:
 					for (LivingEntity entity : getExpr().getArray(e))
-						entity.setLastDamage((Long) delta[0]);
+						entity.setLastDamage(damage);
 					break;
 				case REMOVE:
-					delta[0] = (Long) delta[0] * -1;
+					damage = damage * -1;
 				case ADD:
 					for (LivingEntity entity : getExpr().getArray(e))
-						entity.setLastDamage((Long) delta[0] + entity.getLastDamage());
+						entity.setLastDamage(damage + entity.getLastDamage());
 					break;
 				default:
 					assert false;
 			}
 		}
 	}
-	
+
 	@Override
 	public Class<? extends Number> getReturnType() {
 		return Number.class;
 	}
-	
+
 	@Override
 	protected String getPropertyName() {
 		return "last damage";
 	}
-	
+
 }
diff --git a/src/test/skript/tests/syntaxes/expressions/ExprLastDamage.sk b/src/test/skript/tests/syntaxes/expressions/ExprLastDamage.sk
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0ed3f3f3e4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/skript/tests/syntaxes/expressions/ExprLastDamage.sk
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+test "last damage":
+	set {_l} to location 0.5 above highest block at location(1,1,1)
+	spawn a sheep at {_l}
+	set {_e} to last spawned entity
+
+	assert last damage of {_e} = 0 with "last damage of newly spawned entity should be 0"
+
+	damage {_e} by 1
+	assert last damage of {_e} = 1 with "last damage of entity should be 1 after damaging it by 1"
+
+	set last damage of {_e} to 3
+	assert last damage of {_e} = 3 with "last damage of entity should be 3 after setting to 3"
+
+	# thank you for your service
+	delete entity in {_e}