mid-lane can be pretty strong.
Last thing most wombo-combo QWER champions expect is fighting against an opponent that is, for all intents and purposes, completly unkillable.
Especially amusing vs. assassins, giving them a taste of their own medicine concerning the joy they general bring to a vs. mage lane.
His base damages are also surprisingly high and his QWER kill potential, especially with roams, is putting that mid-lane XP to solid use. His wave clear through those bases also isn't terrible, and with sunfire he can easily shove waves and roam. Also brings added kill-pressure when junglers are ganking his lane due to the 0 bothers he gives about towers existing and how easily he can lock down an opponent for even AFK farm devourer junglers to have a solid impact on lane-ganks.
Not the greatest pick in ultra-high tryhard Elo, but in Silver most of his opponents can't figure out how to deal with him and wind up turning him into a major threat.