Defensive Feint Trap: Difference between revisions

* [[Yu Yu Hakusho|Yusuke Urameshi]] ran away once from a super fast foe. He cornered himself into an alley; then, when his foe came to mock him, he shot a burst of his [[Ki Attacks|Rei Gun]]. In the narrow alley, his enemy wasn't able to avoid the shots and was promptly defeated.

* A very common tactic in ''[[Legend of Galactic Heroes]]'', especially by the FPA. Yang Wenli is especially famous for this. There is actually a battle in the series where an enemy commander - upon seeing Yang's fleet fall back and fearing a trap - is tempted to order a retreat right away.

 

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** Laurana, the [[Red Baron|Golden General]], who takes command of the Solamnic forces after the High Clerist's Tower, returns the favor at the Battle of Margaard Ford. {{spoiler|When faced with a massive enemy army that greatly outnumbers her own, she has her silver dragons create an ice dam to block the Vingaard River. Her ground forces then appear to flee in the face of the overwhelming [[The Empire|Dragonarmy]] force. This causes the enemy army to heedlessly enter the now dry river bed in pursuit of her seemingly routed troops. Laurana then has her gold dragons melt the ice dam, creating a massive tidal wave that annihilates the entire Dragonarmy force without her forces taking any losses.}}

* Jochi does this to a group of Russian knights at the start of ''[[Conqueror|Bones of the Hills]]''. This is [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] towards the end of the book when Kachiun tries this against Jelaudin. However, since Jelaudin is Genghis Khan's [[Worthy Opponent]], he understands Mongol tactics and realises what they are trying. He thus quickly orders his men to stop their pursuit, forcing the Mongols (see [[Real Life]], below) to deal with the shame of having actually retreated.

* Iorek of ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' does this in a duel. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|And it is totally freaking awesome]], as only a duel between armored polar bears can be.

* ''[[Warcraft]]'''s ''[[War of the Ancients]]'' trilogy has the invading demon army use this tactic. Several times. And the overzealous army commander falls for it. Every time.

** In Diablo II, named monsters have a group of mook buddies that stick to them on an AI "leash." Getting mobbed is a ''very'' real danger in this game (each hit disables you for a set amount of time, leading to a [[Cycle of Hurting]] if there's a lot of things hitting you at once.) Thus, the pack of normally-laughable fiends who avert this trope tend to be more dangerous than the miniboss itself.

* ''[[Pokémon]]'' there are a few moves that have the same practical effect. Payback works like this - if your opponent hits you before the move goes off, you do double damage with it. Avalanche does as well. Fairly obviously, so does Revenge. There are also combinations that involve setting up a [[Desperation Attack]] (Flail and Reversal) to effectively function like this.

* In ''[[Warcraft]] 3'' the alliance against the [[Legions of Hell|Burning Legion]] is simply intended to hold them off just long enough to set up a trap. Of course, given the odds they were facing, they weren't exactly letting them have it easy on purpose.

* If you want to <s>do well</s> survive [[Class and Level System|levels 1-3]] in the Infinity Engine games (''[[Baldur's Gate]]'', ''Icewind Dale'', etc.), learning this tactic will be a godsend.