What would be your pick? And why did you choose that coin in the first place? Your input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Personally I didnt use any of these two yet but Ive traded them before on exchange. I am fond of using bitcoin and other altcoins instead of old coins so I didnt know the feeling of using it. But some of my friends are using dogecoin as its very fast and got small fees. Not sure if comparable to L1 if its still much cheaper though.
I still prefer dogecoin, because reason being that, dogecoin have given me a big profits before while the coin was still at it early stage I bought a few of it and left them in a wallet and at that period of the dogecoin craze I made a lot of profits from the coin and ever since then I haven't gone back or try to buy back even though the price of dogecoin plumb down significantly a few weeks after that.
So if I were to choose between the two coins, I would choose dogecoin still since it has been proven that dogecoin has higher fans and chances of recovery, compared to litecoin which looks like a copycat of other projects, for me, dogecoin all the way.