It amazes me Darius isn't played mid right now

All champs that go mid tend to shit on darius effortlessly while also outscaling and having more map presence through roaming.

Playing these champs toplane often gives a weakness to their team through getting easily ganked in lane and having a smaller frontline, but if you bring him mid on your own choice you're asking to not get a single cs without your jungler in the lane.

Sounds about right.

Can't remember the last time I've seen a Kass or Syndra mid though.

The last Zed I faced I bullied hard as Brand, got fed to the point where I hunted HIM down and killed him. Talk about raising morale for my team...