Tali's w should be click and drag.

Yeah, I feel like there is too much windup time. It becomes pretty easy to dodge, but they need to keep it possible to dodge. Something like a quarter to even a half second would make all of the difference.

Actually, something that I really wish they would have done with this ability would be to allow her to use it as a displacement on herself. It could give her a small dash or even a wall hop. .. but I'm not going to hold my breath for that.

I agree. I'm betting they will fix this mechanically and call it a Quality of Life change.

more importantly, it shouldn't prevent you from casting other spells. Right now, she can't cast any other spell between statrteing her W and and the actuall knockup, it's basically a ~1sec self silence.

No.

With other click-and-drag abilities, they are instant release, though their effect(s) may take a bit of time to resolve.

Input for Taliyah's W has a variable window. If you cast it once, it is a straight vertical knockup. Being able to cast it twice frees up your mouses movement because you've "locked in" the direction for the game system to recognize.

If W is click-and-drag, then your mouse is locked into directing the direction of W until the end of the spell. You can't move your mouse without inadvertently changing the direction, which will frequently lock you out of moving after initially casting W. That's even more clunky than it is now.

Huh. I have no problems at all with her W apart from a slighhtly too long delay. With Smart cast it is already W-drag-W again; pure dragging wouldn't work as you would have to keep the cursor in the right direction til it fires (or not move it at all for the knock-up).

I don't think that works as well as we'd like it to. Viktor and Rumble fire instantly, and can aim the second portion of the skill in the direction they think the opponent will run. Taliyah, on the other hand, cannot change the area affected by her W by altering the secondary cast direction. Players that have trouble efficiently inputting mouse clicks would find that they essentially have a longer cast time.

So it doesn't work that well if Taliyah were to have the exact same cast paradigm as Viktor and Rumble (pick origin and direction, THEN fire the ability). But it would probably work just fine if quickcast worked like this; mouse-down casts the ability at target area, mouse-up locks in the target direction.

I have a hard time smart casting it because i move the mouse too fast and end doing the second cast in the wrong place lol

If it was a click and drag, then how would you time when it activates? Currently you have a time buffer to cast the W, then cast again immediately or wait a bit until it just activates on its own. If there was a click and drag, then you would either have to hold down W if you didn't want to activate it yet or you would let go and it would activate right then and there. This could be a huge problem for countering dashes/leaps. I think this would make her even harder to play.

I don't like this idea.

My only qualm with the ability is that casting W before Q or E locks you out of casting either for about a full second. THAT'S what feels clunky to me. You're almost always forced to cast E first into W or Q or get stuck doing nothing until it fires.

I think, it should simply always automatically push enemies towards the mines. It's what you want to do 99% of time anyway.
Atm she sucks, because that knock up simply takes too much time to aim and land. And that combo is her main damage source.