1) Being the original altcoin: Has higher status than the rest of alts

Well, the original altcoin after:

So... the 9th altcoin.

You could say: "one of the original altcoins".

yeah so many noobs here claim litecoins only number 2 because it was the first alt Roll Eyes

same noob also yell it was created to avoid asics Roll Eyes

but anyways it has even more cred having had to fight so many from the start to rise to number 2

and impressively held it ever since