How a "NERF" to my main champion made me from D5 pleb to D2 champion!!!

Hello guys,

As some of you know riot nerfed yasuo e dmg, the trade of is that early you are -20 or at best -18 and as the game goes on you get back your 20. If for some reason you go full ad with no attack speed or tanky items you get some more (but late game 2 dmg more is useless anyway)

So seeing this I was like well.... lets max q!

At first it was so bad, I couldn't dash as fast and I was losing minions left and right cause my e dmg was not as high as it used to (filthy yasuo main last hitting with e)

Plus I was trading poorly and most of the times cause of the slow dash (yasuo e reset, scales with lvls from 5 secs to 1 and the speed scales with your movement speed) I was over extending and dying to ganks

That let me to rethink my playstyle and I completely changed to a more passive q tornado poke playstyle

The trick was simple farm with your q and when enemy goes for last hit just fire up a tornado, after a few hits most enemies were afraid and I could save up my third q and farm minions with autos zoning them from the wave.

I learned that in some cases, lets say vs Ahri, you don't have to last hit with your q, you can spam it and get more tornadoes than in other match ups cause her q will push the wave back, so more tornadoes meant more practice and more poke, same goes for xerath and many more

Further more maxing q gave me more poke dmg vs melee champs witch was the meta on mid (talons ects) and it also gave me more dmg on all ins (cause with e you can only use it once every 5 secs at max rank, usually in lane you get a 8-7 sec cd in early game at rank 3). So more dmg meant better trades leading to pressure and kills. To make it even better stacking fervor was so much more beneficial cause your q scales with ad and it can even crit for more dmg

The more I was playing this playstyle the more I loved it, it was far more consistent cause with the right spacing you were ungankable, plus you could mind game your opponents by holding your q and instead of q auto e auto q, you could do one more auto before your second q, most of them try to doge the second q so if you auto the stand still after that to trade so you can make the second q easier to hit

Adding to that your chill poke and all in playstyle with zoning has a huge W, your wall that can make it even harder for mages to trade (tornadoes and walls for days)

Leaving my risky dashing playstyle to the past, I quickly outperformed many players in my elo, with nicely aimed qs and perfectly timed all ins, with zoning and tactics of proper spacing (cause I couldn't dash like madman anymore),

All these reasons made me a better player and all that with a simple riot change, first Im happy with a nerf.

So thanks riot gj on this one :D

PS: Match ups that e still gives you more power cause you have to doge stuff or you need your passive to be up more or you need it cause you cant q face tank them and mobility is nice to outplay them or get on their face faster : oriana,zed,vlad,lux,kayle (I will add more if needed but those are for now)