If something is innovative with a dedicated developer it deserves to grow, unfortunately that is never the case.
I believe innovation will prevail over the long term. That's why bitcoin is now stagnant and why litecoin is dying.
There is a formula now of using slick marketing, slick bootstrap websites, and artificial social buzz, to elevate a coin. But I think the eventual winners will be those that find sustainable organic growth and critical mass. That will most likely come from development not from hype.
So while the marketeers, whales, and traders might find short term success pumping and dumping, the eventual bitcoin replacement will be born from invention.
Alt pumpers keep repeating these lies to inflate their coin.
First Lie: "Coin X is more innovative than bitcoin."
Bitcoin has more innovation than any other coin and probably more than all of the others put together. More stacks, more code, more testing and peer review, more developers, more API's and frameworks , more venture capital backing development, more software wallets, more hardware wallets, more POS integrations,more mining hardware, more ATM's, ect...
Second Lie: "Bitcoin is stagnant"
Almost every other existing coin besides new coins in the "pump phase" are capitulating in comparison to bitcoin. Bitcoin is growing in venture capital, new users, business adoption, and development.