I won't rule out the fact that Bitcoin is always the leader, if you have study the recent market trend you will observe that the dip in price in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency coins still didn't have much effect on ripple. Ripple was and is still my best cryptocurrency coin at present and it has maintain a constant value of recent with no much dip. I think ripple still have a lot to offer in the cryptocurrency and it will be wrong to completely rule out ripple.