Taliyah nerfs and why it was handled so poorly throughout her lifespan.
So I'm a dedicated 
main with 159k Mastery Points so these are just my two cents.
So as we're aware from patch 6.18, is receiving her 3rd nerf in a row. This hurts her ability to waveclear and roam with little to no thought. I think it's justified since it makes her boring to play and boring to watch. No one wants to see her spam Q 24/7 and no one likes a champ who spams Q until something happens.
"But what about her E and W! Those are important!"
This is why the nerf was handled so poorly. There are absolutely no compensation buffs. Not even QoL changes to E or W. Since her OP waveclear Q spell is back to what it's supposed to be (Which is meant to be used as Cover Fire, poke, or follow up.), it's going to make her laning phase a bit harder.
"But why is it handled so poorly? She'd be back to release day! Isn't that ok?"
Yes. She is back to release day. At first glance at least. With a MUCH weaker E and a weird to use W that basically divided 's playerbase. E and W's mana costs aren't any lower than they were on release and they are weaker in more ways than one. W is awkward to aim with the way it's programmed and E got nerfed even further, making it only good for extra DPS once someone is thrown from W.
This takes away E's purpose as a zoning skill because it gives no incentive to be used as a "zone" at all. Throwing down E and then annoying people with Q and W is how is supposed to zone people. It's her own unique way to lock opponents down for her team to follow up. Why throw down E anymore when it's not going to do anything against Tank 
, Tanky Bruiser 
, Tank 
, and Tank 
. You're just going into their range to die. E isn't going to even scratch them even if you throw them into it with W (Which you probably wont since no competent player gets hit by that thing anymore.).
"Yeah! She can still do that now! What's your point?"
My point is that she isn't anywhere near as effective as she was on release, and that was when she was considered garbage. Her Q is reverted, which means she no longer has that pushing power. Her E and W were fondled with and aren't very relevant anymore, which means she can't zone as well.
So, what can she do? Why pick her over 
, 
, 
, 
, 
, or 
? What can she do that these other 6 mid champs cannot? She can punish gapclosing-happy players better? Not anymore. She can roam better? Not anymore. Her late game is already quite bad with how Worked Ground messes with her ability to fight in large teamfights. E and W fixes that issue with their huge damage potential and flexible peeling abilities. Now that's gone, what is she going to do?
I would really prefer if Lockout was brought back, but only lock out E. It would justify her original damage on E and would not make her kit clunky since Q and R can still be cast. W should cast when left click is held down so actual players would get the old feeling back and newer players can stop saying how it's clunky even if it wasn't in the first place.
