Lijiang Tower

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Lijiang Tower
Theme	▶️ ▶️
Type	Control
Location	China
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.

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 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..
• 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.
• A friend of Mei's from her time in graduate school works at the tower.