You know, Mages already have a rush item that slows
So don't tell me we need to change Rylais into Mana/Cdr
If the slow on Hextech wouldn't decay this fast and Rylais would offer less Ap than it Riot would be able to easily fix the Rylais issue by simply lowering Rylais' AP, tweak the slow and maybe buff the hp.

) and make it into a Mana/CDR item. sure it doesn't have a slow, but if they lower the price to something that can be made during the laning phase, the passive would be pretty handy for squishy burst mages. not only that, but they can keep the
in it, making it another armor option for mages with the addition of point runner for immobile mages.