Talk:Morgana/@comment-11258819-20130801053230/@comment-5606883-20130823010354

Champions that go top lane go for one of 3 reasons in the meta (besides the obvious reason of putting champions that need items to be effective in the game up there):

1) They are tanky champions, or off-tank. So when teamfights come up your team will have a strong front-line defense.

2) They are assassins that can scale very well with farm alone (since kills top lane are harder) such as Zed or Akali.

3) They can shut down the enemy top laner, usually by denying farm like Teemo.

Morgana.....she can go top lane and she could deny farm, but has a poor escape mechanism (walking with her E on) and she has low burst. Akali and Zed work top lane b/c they can combo the enemy AND still do damage with their autoattacks while their abilities are on Cooldown, while Morgana's autoattacks seem to heal the enemy. (aka: once Morg uses her abilities, she is damage-less. And since her burst dmg is relativly low (still good, but she is outscaled by most other AP champs)

She brings great utility, but should either be played as support or APC in the mid lane so your team can have an effective front line defense.