AOC Melee ideas

I really like the idea of a corrupted monk but I feel there are difficulties with the melee aspect with a chaos centered character. one area of improvement could be an ability for the monk that has the same moveset or attack like ice strike but behaves like hand of chaluya. It would be cool to have a melee attack that you could socket essence drain and contagion into and then when you kill an enemy with said melee attack it then spreads the contagion/essence drain onto the nearest enemey. you could make it so that when it hits the bell the bell deals chaos damage and enemies killed then spread the slotted abilities affects. just an idea on how to maybe improve the melee viability of the Acolyte.