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Fishing for Mooks is different than Kiting.
Fight smart, not fair.
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How? Doesn't it involve the same tactics? (Get aggro, run like mad, kill; lather, rinse, repeat.)
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Fishing for Mooks doesn't necessarily imply running away. I can speak from personal experience in World Of Warcraft that catching a trash mob is different from than kiting. For one, the tank tended to stay put and attack from range as the mob came closer.
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Ouch, first time one of my tropes has been hauled to the repair shop! 
This is different from Hit-and-Run Tactics... I should know, I designed that one too. Hit-and-Run Tactics involves running away from an oncoming foe while shooting at it, whether you have to stop to shoot or not. Fishing for Mooks means luring an opponent away from a large mob and picking them off away from assistance, and then repeating until all are gone.
Does this clear up the difference?
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Pulling and Kiting are not related at all. Pulling is if you want to take one mob out of the herd, and isolate it. Think cattle rustling.
Kiting is attracting a mob's attention, then trying to stay out of it's sights as you(or teammates) stab it in passing. Think Bullfighting.
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That's a good point. Short of actual mechanics of the medium, there's very little that needs to be medium specific.
Fight smart, not fair.
Specially because it is sort of a famous tactics. If I am not mistaken, Miyamoto Musashi talked about that in his book.
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Fishing for Mooks is an abuse of enemy AI. This makes it pretty much a Videogame Trope, unless the mooks are unusually stupid.
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It's possible to do it a little bit in movies. You know, when they make a noise so that one of the mooks comes over and checks it out, they take him out. It doesn't work a lot but it works on occasion.
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The "mooks get taken out when investigating a strange noise" is probably already being covered by The Guards Must Be Crazy and Throwing the Distraction, though.
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Hmm...
The trope is supposed to refer specifically to luring enemies away from a group by abusing their AI. Hence "Fishing For Mooks" not a distraction related name.
Perhaps a subtrope of something?
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One of the things that follow the 'distracted by a sound' thing can be sneaking up behind them and taking them out. The new Shattered Dimension Spider-Man game makes Fishing for Mooks a mechanic of gameplay (Noir!Spidey fights by picking off mooks one by one.)
Meaning in non-game examples Spider-Man and Batman would both be pretty good example picks, from the start. As they both (more Bats than Spidey) will try to finish mooks off with the least amount of strife.
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The stuff discussed in the trope is already covered more or less by Hit-and-Run Tactics (though it's currently worded for "big, strong enemy versus lone tiny player character", it can be expanded to cover "mass mob kiting"). Unless I'm missing something, I'm probably going to cutlist Fishing for Mooks.