Yes And no. By all means players should feel free to level up their preferred characters regardless of strength. And they should okay however they want. But some players WANT to level up just the best characters in each tier and play the meta. Not sure where TC comes down, but the fact is that carnage is meh overall and TC should definitely level and enjoy using him if that is TC"s preference.
Carnage is awesome. He just needs teammates. I used 2/5/2 level 390 Oml, 5/5/3 X23, 5/5/3 Carnage to climb to 1k in Shield Sim last night in one sitting without using a single health pack. Carnage doesn’t tank any tiles and Oml/X23 heals. Only way Carnage takes damage is through aoe and stuns which is easy to avoid since this team is very fast and spams a ton of free damage.
Carnage have one of the highest AoE damages among 4*'s for that reason alone and he is many times skipped in PvP, I would recommend champing him definitely (My carnage is still low level 2/1/0 or something like that) My goal is to champ him too.
Alot of good points here already. Might I add, he has extra value since he’s one of the few buffed 4s during the off season Villians event… buffed Carnage and Rulk is a skip from me.