"First Appearance" trope became boring.
First of all, I have to say that the idea of immitating comic covers and having a special Variant edition for champion profile picks is not bad at all. Comic readers chase special covers, and players can also chase special "shiny" profiles.
But, the idea is stale, and even if it tries to give the pictures a "foil" feeling, just like with the holofoil comic variant covers, it fails to deliver, and it s the same for every champion.
There are tons of different types of comic variant covers, that can easily be adapted to the game, like, sketch variants, black and white ones, virgins (=no border for the game), or a specially modified champions series similar to "venomized", "skrullified", "zombified" covers, decade variants, movie variants, and so on.
Having the exact 3-color shinny palette as a special filter covering the exact same profile pic image in Every champion, has become repititive and boring. Why not having a few more different ideas for this?