my opinion there can be some frustration those days or weeks , but general trend should be up and only .
with near instant transaction litecoin will get more investor and more use , what is the point of paying high BTC fees and waiting hours for some coins to arrive ,
more after SegWit activation there is more to come
LN network first implementations are to be released in a month or so I guess, in-house testing is already underway for some time.