I saw someone complain that Carnage acts too much like a berserker in Carnage vs Lucy earlier, rather than the tactician he actually is (Depending on the writer), but Carnage actually does use noticeable strategy in the fight. Here's what happens from Carnage's perspective:
- Carnage tries a direct attack, but can't get through thanks to an invisible force
- Carnage tries arm weapons to break though with brute force
- Carnage tries putting his Symbiote on the "barrier" to see if he can mess with it, and then sees it destroy his attack
- Carnage tries faster attacks, and notices Lucy actually duck an attack rather than the "Barrier" blocking it
- Carnage tries to block an attack to gain an opening, since he now knows Lucy dosn't actually have an invincible barrier
- Carnage goes out of sight tries to attack from an unexpected angle, which very nearly lands a killing blow on Lucy, the axe limb appearing not even an inch away from her (Lucy likely only blocking it to show her speed advantage). He then keeps up his advantage until Lucy is knocked away from him. By now, he can probably tell Lucy has invisible limbs rather than a forcefield, espesially with all the attacks he's been hit by so far.
- Carnage tries large, heavy projectiles to see if these invisible limbs
- Seeing brute force dosn't work, Carnage uses small, rapid attacks to overwhelm Lucy's defenses, which works to an extent since Lucy actually gets hit
- Seeing lots of attacks at once can break through, he uses tons of tendrils to try and get a melee hit for his possession
- While this dosn't work, it forces Lucy into the air, and Carnage clearly knows (mostly) how Lucy's vectors work, since he specifically climbs up them instead of just trying to jump or fly to her position
- Admittedly, staying on them when he's seen that Lucy can get his symbiote off the vectors was kinda dumb, but since Carnage probably thinks Lucy can't do any permanent damage to him at this point, so intimidating her is pretty in character
- Carnage then gets grappled by an invisible appendage he couldn't really have reasonably avoided, and didn't really have much reason to due to his regen. Carnage dosn't die because he's an idiot, he dies because Lucy could punch hard enough to create nuclear explosions and Carnage had literally no way of knowing about that, and by the time he finds out he really can't do much about it.
Carnage adapts remarkably well to Lucy's vectors throughout the fight, when a mere raging berserker probably would have just kept throwing themselves at the vectors to no avail with no strategy at all.
