This is my setup, and it works great! Install was flawless aswell, no trickery needed on my behalf. What problem did you run into?
asdf which node
/Users/jmfayard/.asdf/installs/nodejs/19.0.0/bin/node
which node
/Users/jmfayard/.asdf/shims/node
node --version
v19.0.0
asdf local nodejs 16.18.0
node --version
v16.18.0