By fine-tuning the way you upgrade Carlie’s skills and gear, you can save yourself quite some Skill Medals and Universal Shards in the process and as not all skills have the same amount of impact but have the same amount of costs leveling up, fine-tuning them is worth it in the end.
Important! If you want to check how well Carlie does in the current meta of all heroes in Last War Survival Game, please check out my current tier list of all heroes here.
Tier SHere is a quick overview of the rankings of Carlie for the different modes of the game. Please refer to the full tier list linked below to see the ranking of all heroes in Last War Survival Game and full evaluation and priority.
Carlie’s Team Setups
Use our new squad planner to see how your ideal lineups look like not just with Carlie. It also let you exclude heroes you haven’t built or mark heroes as not fully built and you can see how that changes your ideal lineup:
Carlie’s Optimal Gear Setup(s)
Now we have to take a look at the gear setup, as it takes a lot of time and resources to craft higher rarity gear and not all gear is as impactful as the other one and you have to gear a couple of heroes in Last War Survival Game. Also upgrading gear gets very expensive and you simply can’t just pump all your Upgrade Ore randomly on gear.
- +1Tap a slotEvery gear slot around Carlie can be tapped. Empty slots pulse until you set them.
- −Lv 22+2Set what you have nowPick the item that's equipped in your game and its level. Nothing equipped? Choose "None yet".
- ▸ Upgrade next12 → 203Follow "Upgrade next"We compare your gear with the ideal order and show the one upgrade that gives the most power right now — plus the steps after it.
- ✓ Saved4Come back & updateYour gear is saved on this device. After upgrading in-game, update the slot and you get your next step.
Minimum, Sweetspot and Optimum under Carlie show how far your gear is. Upgrade the exclusive weapon once you can unlock it — it never holds up your build.

Carlie’s Optimal Skill Upgrade Order
Upgrading skills is possible after you get Carlie to 2-Star and then you will be able to upgrade each skill in 5-level increments. White the first skills are rather easy and cheap, it will start to eat quite a bit into your Skill Medals and as you can’t produce them, you might end up with half-built heroes. So, here is the order you should work on the skills for Carlie so you only spend the Skill Medals where they actually provide good value:
Autobasic
Passivepassive
Tacticactive
Expertiseexpertise
Awakenawaken
- 1Upgrade to 2 StarsRequired
- 2
PassiveLv 0 to Lv 5Start hereRequiredTake Passive from Lv 0 to Lv 5 before you touch any other skill.Pause at Lv 5. You'll come back to this skill after the upgrade to 3 Stars. - 3
TacticLv 0 to Lv 5RequiredNext up: your active Tactic, Lv 0 to Lv 5. Don't spend medals on other skills until then.Lv 5 is enough for now. The next levels come after the upgrade to 3 Stars. - 4
AutoLv 1 to Lv 5RequiredPut your medals into your basic Auto until it hits Lv 5. Everything else waits.Pause at Lv 5. You'll come back to this skill after the upgrade to 3 Stars. - 5Upgrade to 3 StarsRequiredUntil this upgrade, keep Auto, Passive and Tactic at Lv 5.
- 6
PassiveLv 5 to Lv 10RequiredPush Passive to Lv 10 first. No other skill upgrades before that.Stop at Lv 10 for now; the rest comes after the upgrade to 4 Stars. - 7
TacticLv 5 to Lv 10RequiredAll medals go into your active Tactic here: Lv 5 to Lv 10. The other skills stay where they are.Stop at Lv 10 for now; the rest comes after the upgrade to 4 Stars. - 8
AutoLv 5 to Lv 10RequiredUpgrade your basic Auto to Lv 10. Only move on to other skills once it gets there.Pause at Lv 10. You'll come back to this skill after the upgrade to 4 Stars.
Low investment and nice improvement accross the board here that absolutely is worth it before starting to get more seelctive on what skills you actually upgrade next.
- CORE
- GOAL
- AWAKEN
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Carlie’s Exclusive Weapon + Mythic Awakening
When we take a look at her Exclusive Weapon, which becomes available in Season 2 – Snow Storm, there is not much strategy as you will linear unlock the Exclusive Weapon skill at Level 1, Level 10, Level 20 and Level 30. The all have a huge boost but even each single level provide her a base stat boost that will scale through her full kit. And every Exclusive Weapon level you add for Carlie will increase her HP, Defense and Attack by roughly 10% for EACH level so the power she gains from that in incredibly much. If you use her, get the Exclusive Weapon levels and I can assure you they will make her one of the top heroes in Season 2.
Conclusion
I hope this guide helped you to build your Carlie without just pumping your manuals into the skills. I assure you this will make your progress in Last War Survival a lot faster and get the biggest bang for your buck in terms of making the skills rock that really make a big impact espcially as costs get higher and higher.
Hi, greetings,,
Could you please write the name of the skills beside the skill picture, since Carlie has two skills with same picture, and it’s confusing to upgrade which one.
waiting for your reply.
Best regards..