Lijiang Tower

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Lijiang Tower
Theme	▶️ ▶️
Type	Control
Location	Lijiang, China
Narrator	▶️
Terrain	Modern city area
Release date	2016-05-24

Lijiang Tower (漓江塔) is a Control map in Overwatch 2. It was one of the 12 maps included in Overwatch's release on May 24th, 2016.

Official Description

Lijiang Tower was built in the heart of a modern Chinese metropolis, its busy streets lined with stores, gardens, restaurants, and famous night markets. The tower itself is home to one of the leading companies in China's state-of-the-art space industry, Lucheng Interstellar, an organization with a long pioneering history that is currently pushing the boundaries of space exploration.

Background

Lijiang Tower is located in Lijiang, China. A night market sits at the tower's base. The entrance to the tower proper is a large open courtyard. The tower is at least 63 floors tall, and Lucheng Interstellar has its offices in the top ten, with the control room on floor 63, and a production lab on floor 60. Their offices are equipped with security doors.

History

When Null Sector assaulted Lijiang, Lucheng Interstellar took steps to defend the tower. Security agents patrolled its perimeter, and bunkers were set up to defend the building. On a mission for the Junkers, Hammond infiltrated Lucheng's offices. He knocked out the security guards in Lucheng's control room and triggered an evacuation order, but was confronted by Dr. Chao and additional security. A firefight erupted in the control room. Deploying antipersonnel mines, Hammond destroyed the control room, but not before diving out the window, descending to floor 60, and recovering antigravity thrusters.

Gameplay

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Each turn is played on one of the three sections of the map:

• Night Market
• Garden
• Control Center

Strategy

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Garden

Pathing

Garden has three main routes to the objective:

• The bridge, which provides opportunity for dive compositions, but any slow-moving heroes run the risk of getting eliminated by knockback.
• The back route, which has more cover and is less viable for knockback kills, but provides closer quarters for combat.
• Directly through the middle of the map, which is only accessible to characters that can jump gaps, but is a great route for flanker duos like Mercy and Pharah.

Heroes

• Heroes with knockback abilities can easily get environmental kills on the bridges out of spawn, the gap surrounding the objective, and the top-most section of the map.
• Mercy is able to hide behind the rock near the bridge to keep her Resurrect safe.
• The two windows on either side of the objective can be used for surprise attacks by small flanker heroes such as Genji, Tracer, or Pharah.

Trivia

• Lijiang Tower (漓江塔) largely resembles the overall aesthetics of Chongqing, China.
• A spacesuit with the name "Hongyu Wu" appears on the Control Center map with text above it that reads 英雄不死 ("Heroes Never Die"). This is a tribute to an Overwatch fan that tragically died a day before the game's release.
• On Night Market, a newspaper with a picture of Mei in her Yeti Hunter skin can be seen.
• Jiayi Teo once worked at the tower.