A tier list of lesser actives/passives

Everyone generally knows what the best abilities are in the game to invest in. Early on summons like Bellator and Aleph Null, and later on GR/Meta characters like Eldryon, Ragnar, Kharn, ect. But there's a lot less information there on what the mid tier abilities are, ones that you would invest to 17 or 26. As I'm upgrading characters for LREs, ones that are needed but not traditionally strong, I'm struggling with deciding what characters need to be just leveled up enough vs those worthy of more legit investment. As an example, is Patermine's summon good enough given the Terrifying track for the Trajann LRE? How about Maugan Ra's passive? These are obviously questions for people who have been into the game for much longer, but just thinking about what's most optimal use of my lower level badges.