Talk:Elise/@comment-4900941-20130306151440/@comment-69.141.8.150-20130308235740

"If you ask me, darius is way better mid than top."

Mid is easy lane. You reserve mid for champions who get the most out of farm, can control minion waves relatively well, and for champs who don't lane particularly well or aren't very resilient to ganks. This is ap mage to the T. Mid lane is also great for champ who can push their minions then go roam. Darius isn't an especially effective roamer (at least not compared to Akali, diana, kat, fizz kass etc).

Darius doesn't go mid because he's unsuited to it, he doesn't go mid because it's giving him an advantage he doesn't particularly make good use of. He's not an assassin or mage so the added gold doesn't help carry the same way it does for those other types of champs.