Overwatch – Is Heroic Highlight Intro Included with Random Option?

Redditor SpriteGuy_000 has done some extensive testing, and according to his spreadsheet these are the things you can be commended for.

All Heroes

• Eliminations (% Kill Participation)
• Objective Time
• Damage Done (% of Team Damage)
• Gold Medals Earned (Total Medals)
• Total Medals
• Objective Kills (Eliminations)
• Best Kill Streak (Eliminations)
• Teleporter Pads Destroyed (Enemy Teleporters Placed)
• MVP (% of Match on Fire)
• Melee Final Blows (% of Final Blows)
• Environmental Kills (Eliminations)
• Solo Kills (Eliminations)

Bastion

• Recon Kills (Eliminations)

D.Va

• Mechs Called (Mech Deaths)

Genji

• Damage Reflected (Deflection Eliminations)
• Dragonblade Kills (Dragonblades)

Hanzo

• Doesn't appear to have any unique commendations

Junkrat

• Players Trapped

Lúcio

• Healing Done (% of Team Damage Taken)
• Sound Barriers Provided (Sound Barrier Casts)

McCree

• Fan the Hammer Kills (Total Eliminations)

Mei

• Enemies Frozen (Total Time Frozen)
• Damage Blocked

Mercy

• Players Resurrected (% of total deaths)
• Healing Done (% of Team Damage Taken)
• Defensive Assists (% Kill Participation)

Pharah

• Rocket Direct Hits (% of Rockets Fired)
• Barrage Kills (Rocket Barrages)

Reaper

• Souls Consumed ()
• Death Blossom Kills (Eliminations)

Reinhardt

• Damage Blocked

Roadhog

• Self Healing (% of Damage Taken)
• Enemies Hooked (% Hook Accuracy)

Soldier: 76

• Helix Rockets Kills (Eliminations)

Symmetra

• Players Teleported (% Teleporter Uptime)
• Sentry Turret Kills (Eliminations)
• Shields Provided (% Shield Uptime)

Torbjörn

• Armor Packs Created (% Armor Uptime)
• Turret Kills (% Kill Participation)

Tracer

• Health Recovered (Recalls Used)

Widowmaker

• Infra-Sight Uptime (Recon Assists)

Winston

• Damage Blocked
• Jump Pack Kills

Zarya

• Projected Barriers Applied (Damage Blocked)

Zenyatta

• Transcendence Healing (Healing Done)
• Healing Done (% of Team Damage Taken)
• Defensive Assists (% Kill Participation)

The following are all things that I've seen work for me and my teammates, playing from early in the closed beta to now.

Reinhardt's shield and Winston's bubble both block the hook, so if they can be raised before the hook hits anyone, that can save not only the player, but also their teammates.

As one of the other answers has said, using a character that has an "out," like a dash, you can semi-reliably escape from the Roadhog.

Dashing with Tracer or Genji, or using Tracer's Rewind, might save you if the Roadhog isn't fast enough. Likewise with Pharah's Jump Jet. McCree can try and stun the Roadhog and roll away, which might work in his favor.

Reaper and Mei can easily use their invulnerability abilities to help prevent their demise. Unfortunately, Mei's leaves her right there next to the Roadhog, so you have to hope your team can save you. Zarya's barriers both block the hook, if applied before it lands. Also, Zarya can activate a barrier on herself or an ally after they've been hooked to hopefully ensure the Roadhog does not get a kill, and instead gives her a big boost of energy. Call out to a Zarya on your team if you have one, and they might keep you alive.

Winston and Zenyatta can pop their Ultimate to pretty much ensure they survive the encounter, but that's probably a wasted ult.

Lastly, one thing that works for me about half the time, since I play Lucio very frequently, is to use a knockback ability (Lucio's alt-fire) on the Roadhog, which sometimes prevents a killing blow from landing and occasionally disorients the Roadhog. This can also work for Junkrat and his concussive mine. Press shift and right-click immediately. The Junkrat will be blown back, and the Roadhog might even die. If Pharah's Jump Jet is on cooldown, her Concussive Blast would knock both characters away from each other, and might be more effective than Lucio's alt-fire.

One important note with using knockback abilities: Junkrat's and Pharah's abilities move both players, so they usually work a little better in certain situations. If the Roadhog hooks you as Lucio while standing backed up against a wall, trying to blast him away with your alt-fire will be much less effective, if not pointless.

Something that could work against a very slow or just bad Roadhog is Hanzo's scatter shot, fired at the Roadhog's/Hanzo's feet. I've never seen this successfully done, but theoretically it might work.

One final note: Widowmaker's grapple probably wouldn't work, as it is very slow, but poisoning the Roadhog with a venom mine as you die might ensure that he goes down, too.