User blog comment:AlexHawks/Challenge the meta - Support in the MID lane/@comment-5955640-20130424070542

My only thing against Supports in mid is that someone needs to nuke. The Top lane is usually a Bruiser or an offtank fighter. The Jungler flucuates between being a burst assassin or a tanky intiator. Support is devoted to Utility in buffs, CC, or Heals. And ADC is the rapid fire auto attacker. And the Mid laner. is well. AOE and Crowd Control nukes. Now you might say Nunu, Blitzcrank, and Leona do sort of do that. And that's the natch. They aren't true supports. They were supposed to be offtanks for solo lanes that got used as supports for their CCs and nerfed to fit that role.

Having a support in Midlane means you've traded the massive nuke someone like Annie, Ryze, Or Ziggs could offer, You also don't have an insane AP Assassin who can snowball a game by ambusing people and bursting them down when they are isolated and vulerable.

Once again. Supports do have CC that could be useful like true mage power but it's not true power because it exists to supplement other people's skills.

If you know what you are doing then anything is possible I've seen Amumu used in solo mid and do amazingly well against a typical pick. But it's not a strong nomination when you are playing with strangers who make the same daring move only to completely throw the game in their crushing incompetance.