Canon Hero Abilities So Far

Ana
Biotic Rifle
Ashe
The Viper
Dynamite
Baptiste
Only damage from Biotic Rifle
Immorality Field
Bastion
Configuration: Recon
Configuration: Turret
Reconfigure
Brigitte
Rocket Flail
Whip Shot
Barrier Shield
Shield Bash
D.Va
Fusion Cannons
Light Gun
Boosters
Defense Matrix
Micro Missiles
Doomfist
Rocket Punch
Rising Uppercut
Echo
Tri-Shot
Sticky Bombs
Flight
Glide
Genji
Shuriken
Deflect
Swift Strike
Dragonblade
Hanzo
Storm Bow
Scatter Arrow
Dragonstrike
Lúcio
Sonic Amplifier
Speed Boost
Wall Riding
Sound Barrier
McCree
Peacekeeper
Flashbang
Mei
Endothermic Blaster (primare fire)
Ice Wall
Mercy
Caduceus (primary fire)
Guardian Angel
Angelic Descent
Valkyrie
Moira
Fade
Orisa
Fusion Driver
Pharah
Rocket Launcher
Jump Jet
Reaper
Hellfire Shotguns
Wraith Form
Death Blossom
Reinhardt
Rocket Hammer
Barrier Shield
Charge
Roadhog
Take A Breather
Chain Hook
Soldier-76
Heavy Pulse Rifle
Sprint
Biotic Field
Tactical Visior
Sombra
Machine Pistol
Hack
Stealth
Translocator
Tracer
Pulse Pistols
Blink
Recall
Pulse Bomb
Widowmaker
Widow’s Kiss
Graphling Hook
Venom Mine
Infra-Sight
Winston
Tesla Cannon
Jump Pack
Barrier Projector
Primal Rage
Wrecking Ball
Quad Cannons
Zarya
Particle Cannon
Graviton Surge

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I made a google doc about this complete with references not too long ago.

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Did you include Hero Origins? You should.
There’re Ashe’s Dynamite, Wrecking Ball’s Quad Cannons.
Mercy’s Guardian Angel is just her Valkyria.
Echo’s Glide is just her Flight.

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We see the gun, but we don’t see him use them. I’m only counting weapons if we see them being used (so we can compare them to how they perform in the game).

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I honestly really hope that all abilities are shown and canonised.

Some abilities seem too fantastical to be made canon as they appear in the game, like Transcendence. If it is shown, it will probably function differently, like Resurrect.

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Ones you missed:

Rein also performs an earthshatter both in his comic as well as in the Zero Hour short.

Mei uses her secondary fire against a few omnics in zero hour

I guess you can count BOB as an ability since basically her entire interaction with him is her ultimate in that cinematic.

D.Va overloads her meka in her cinematic so that’s a canon thing she can do. Recalling her mech obviously isn’t though.

You could argue that Resurrection is kind of there since she does say the “let’s get you back in the fight” line when she revives Mei in Zero Hour.

Moira uses Biotic Grasp in the opening cutscene of Retribution.

Also, from Symmetra’s comic:
Teleporter
Photon barrier
Photon projector
I think she also used her sentry turrets.

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In your doc you forgot to add Reinhardt firestrike, it is canon that crusaders can perform a firestrike, we see in the last bastion short when bastion is having the war flashback from the other robot memory, and we see Balderich doing it too in his last fight inside the castle

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Exactly, we see Balderich doing it - I made this list with a focus on the heroes themselves performing the abilities, so in my mind that didn’t count. But yes, that would count as a canon ability.

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In the same way, we see more than once the E-54 units in tank configuration so I guess its canon too

Tank configuration is an interesting one . . . we see E-54s in Tank and Recon mode, but we never see them transform between them. Can they even transform? Or are they made as either Tank models or Recon/Sentry models?

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I honestly think that is an in-game talent we’ll see for Mercy in OW 2’s PvE rather than the Resurrection ability. But then again, maybe Resurrection’s lore form is instantly healing incapacitated people without the staff (which does it slowly) instead of literally bringing the newly deceased back?

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Wall Climb is canon for both Shimadas

You forgot Ashe: B.O.B

Where is symmetry?

She had a comic where she uses

  • light bridge
  • barrier
  • orb
  • tp
  • electric zapping construct