verb
Gaming Slang
kite
· verb · gaming
Backpedalling away from an enemy while still hitting it from range.
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Moving away from a target while attacking it so it can never close the gap and hit you. The bread and butter of ranged play: you deal damage, it deals none. Named for keeping the enemy on a string like a kite.
“Don't stand still and trade, kite him around the pillar and he'll never touch you.”
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Also 'kite back' in teamfights, peeling a diving enemy by walking backward and chipping it down as your team helps.
“Their assassin jumped me but I kited him into my team and we collapsed.”
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kite In A Sentence
Don't stand still and trade, kite him around the pillar and he'll never touch you.
Their assassin jumped me but I kited him into my team and we collapsed.
Origin & Usage
From the image of flying a kite, keeping something at the end of a string at a controlled distance.
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