Editing Lijiang Tower

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{{Infobox map
| name = Lijiang Tower
| image = Lijiang Tower loading screen.jpg
| theme = {{Audio|Lijang Tower Theme 1.ogg}} {{Audio|Lijang Tower Theme 2.ogg}} 
| type = Control
| location = {{flag|cn}} China
| terrain = Modern city area
| isMap = Yes
| releaseDate = 2016-05-24
}}

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

==Background==
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.

==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 [[Status effect#Knockback|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. The map is also named similarly to two other real-world places: Lijiang (丽江), a city in the Yunnan province, and Li Jiang (漓江), a river in China's Guangxi province. Chinese Versions of ''Overwatch 2'' indicate the latter is the origin of inspiration because of the matching Chinese letters.<ref>[http://ow.blizzard.cn/game/overview/ Simplified Chinese version of game overview]</ref><ref>[https://playoverwatch.com/zh-tw/game/overview Traditional Chinese version of game overview]</ref>.
* 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.<ref>2016-07-01, [http://www.gamespot.com/articles/overwatch-honors-fan-who-died-a-day-before-its-rel/1100-6441456/ Overwatch Honors Fan Who Died a Day Before Its Release]. ''GameSpot'', accessed on 2016-07-03</ref>
* On Night Market, a newspaper with a picture of [[Mei]] in her Yeti Hunter skin can be seen.
*A friend of Mei's from her time in graduate school works at the tower.<ref>''[[Overwatch 2]]'', ''[[Mei/Quotes|Mei Quotes]]''</ref>

==360° Panorama==
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==References==
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