Yes, you can try to figure out which shitcoins are less shitty.
Seriously I don't really think it easy to figure how shitty a shit coin can or would be it's just a 50-50 hope of rise to fall even if there's a high tendency for it to appreciate we all know it will get dumped and abandoned forever. Sometimes, I wonder if this so called shit coins are used for money laundering as there will be a big pump all of a sudden and all becomes shitty
in just a hour or less.... just saying though . The best choice is to just stay away from it or just consider it as pure gambling, a win good for the winner 
a loss acceptance of fate 
Money laundering in shitcoin will not be strong because their liquidity is small so indeed shitcoin will never be valuable and the price of coins is always played by the owner by creating hype and fomo after the price soars making shitcoin to the market and rugpull.
If you know shitcoin is like gambling then avoid it, because it will be too much risk. Simply choose bitcoin as a safe investment in the sense that the price will never go to zero.