Hit and Run Tactics: Difference between revisions

Common in video games, but also found in other works. And in [[Real Life]], this is a very effective and well-used military tactic, also known as '[[Horse Archer|Parthian Tactics]]' and guerrilla warfare.

 

 

== Action Games ==

* This is the second best way to deal with a Tank in ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'', provided you're not injured. The best is with [[Kill It With Fire|a molotov.]]

* A viable tactic in ''[[Dark Cloud 2 (Video Game)|Dark Cloud 2]]''. Be careful, though; every time an enemy in that game is hit, no matter how weakly, it takes a point off its rage meter. When it's raged, it temporarily becomes stronger.

* The rather generic Korean MMORPG ''Cabal'' has a character class called "Force Archer", which is basically the equivalent of a [[Squishy Wizard]] (as opposed to the actualy ingame Wizards, which are more of [[Glass Cannon|Glass Cannons]]). The only thing preventing the average Force Archer from being completely minced within seconds in a PVP scenario is the Fade Step skill, which is a sort of [[Flash Step]] in reverse. A smart Force Archer will take advantage of the skill to fire a few volleys at a foe, then Fade Step, launch a few more attacks, Fade Step, and repeat the cycle. Unfortunately, many players consider it equal to cheating, despite the fact that, ya know, its the '''entire point''' of the Force Archer class.

* ''[[Ever Quest]]''. Possibly the only way anyone could level past, say, 15 without a group. And only a handful of classes could do it in the first place.

** While bosses are usually immune to this, some encounters still require kiting his flunkies until a proper time comes to finish them off. In addition to hunters, frost mages also excel at this.

** For a long time Lord Kazzak, a boss level demon who existed in the 'main world', had the potential to be kited out of his zone and all the way to Stormwind. Doing this was extremely difficult but was often very rewarding since Kazzak was impossible to kill after three minutes of engaging and would rampage through the city until a GM deleted him. Seeing a giant demon firing hundreds of shadow bolts and totally destroy the city. Priceless.[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl0VWJdE01M See it here].

* In ''[[Final Fantasy XI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XI]]'', kiting is broken up into normal kiting, where healers can be attacked if the kiters don't keep the mob's attention, and "super-kiting," where due to how the game's enmity system works, a kiter can be healed infinitely without having to do anything other than run. For obvious reasons, the latter doesn't work against many bosses.

* Heck, just about any MMORPG that has ranged attackers as characters will have them doing this when playing solo, as they're usually quite [[Squishy Wizard|squishy]] and won't last long in a serious melee. It's especially common with archers, who are typically [[Nerf|not allowed to outdamage the mages]] despite being a DPS class and usually end up as a support class as a result.