With Rylai's Nerfed, now might be a perfect opportunity to bring back Pox Arcana

Seeing how the last time I made a post about Pox Arcana it got pretty popular, I thought I'd try it again now that there's a new rift where Rylai's once was.

With Rylai's having been nerfed to the point where it's a rather niche item for immoble mages who want slows early game (Brand, Aurelion Sol, maybe karthus but not really), AND the fact that now we're 1 less item that Needlessly large rod builds into, I'd like to propose that we bring back an item that had used to be in an old Game mode called Black Market Brawlers back when the Bilgewater event was still a thing.

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Here's the Original Recipe from BMB:

POX ARCANA:

Cost: 3000G

Recipe: Lost Chapter + Amp tone + 1665 GP

Stats: 100% Mana Regen, 100 AP, 20% CDR

UNIQUE PASSIVE – POX: Applies a stack of Pox for 10 seconds whenever you deal ability damage, stacking up to 5 times.

UNIQUE ACTIVE – DISEASE HARVEST: Deals 100 magic damage plus 20 (+5% AP) per stack of Pox (maximum of 200 (+25% AP)) to all nearby enemies affected by Pox, and restores 5% of your maximum mana for every Pox stack harvested. 60 second cooldown.

TOTAL GOLD EFFICIENCY: 3528 or 117.6% (without Passive)

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This was when Mana regen was a thing on Mages, and they also built things like Athene's, which at the time was built a lot on mages who needed the mana regen. Now in this day and age, Mana regen is more used on AP supports so I made an edit in both my previous post, and another edit here that I think would balance it out in both stats and Gold efficiency.

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POX ARCANA (Rebalanced)

Cost: 3000G

Builds out of NLR, Lost Chapter + 850G

Stats:

100 AP 500 Mana

UNIQUE PASSIVE – POX: Applies a stack of Pox for 10 seconds whenever you deal ability damage, stacking up to 5 times.

UNIQUE ACTIVE – DISEASE HARVEST: Deals 100 magic damage plus 20 (+5% AP) per stack of Pox (maximum of 200 (+25% AP)) to all nearby enemies affected by Pox, and restores 5% of your maximum mana for every Pox stack harvested. 60 second cooldown.

TOTAL GOLD EFFICIENCY: 2875G or 95.8% without Passive

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I think this would prove to be a decent item for those who suffer from the Rylai's changes, and perhaps be the final nail in the coffin for Tank ekko maybe?. It's meant for champs that are of a higher risk/ higher reward playstyle (Aurelion sol, Karthus, Ryze, Ekko, maybe Fizz etc.) where your damage is maximized when you go head-first into the enemy team. This way, Artillery champs can't abuse the active because they have to keep a distance otherwise they get blown up.