Yes, seen from the many benefits of each coin. eth is helping the ico project more this year and making altcoins grow on the exchange so that coins or tokens are good to invest.
I think most of the people are want ETH overcome to BTC because they are able to buy in, affordable price of ETH and if it fluctuates like the prices of BTC it seems that you already gaining a large profit. In, BTC some of people can't afford to buy that's why they are relying in ETH.