Talk:Kalista/@comment-10765030-20141117004537/@comment-8468980-20141118034017

there are problems with sending an ADC mid. In order to beat an assassin or ap mid, they need to deal significant burst or else they'll just get hit with CC and then the opponent's full rotation... in order to trade an AA and a spell (some ADCs do burst well in lane, Corki and Cait are good examples). In addition, they need items to scale well so they need as much cash as possible, giving up bot lane's support means you give up safer farm and potentially easier kills (ap mids still need gold of course, but their primary damage source is their spell damage which just so happens to also scale very well with base level ups).

In addition, mid Kalista with oathsworn jungler means the jungler needs to be mid for Kalista to use ulti. This limits its versatility signficantly versus duo bot Kalista with oathsworn support for the dedicated ulti.