in souls games we have some kind of kick (but im sure u guys know that), here we have shoulder charge, but that’s only available for heavy builds.
i feel like i dont have much to do, and is much worse when there are 2-3 shielded enemies together, i have a weapon with weapon throw just for this, but it’s not fun to have a weapon with focus potions just for this case.
With daggers and being crap at parrying. Against shields I just try to get backstabs in.
Would be great to have more moves against them as daggers cant even chip away shield enemies health as the first few thrusts deal little to no damage.
i have a hard time doing backstabs when there are multiple enemies, and sometimes, the shielded enemies just stand there with their shield up 
I made a similar suggestion in another post.
It could have a similar effect to the shoulder bash but cost focus instead.
You have the blink rune to teleport behind enemy.
that’s the reason i switched from climber’s pick to summer sting. Now im bitchslapping my way to echo knight. It’s not even a challenge anymore.
I’m still trying out builds but so far the counters I’ve found are…
• Heavy shove, works on single target but struggles on multiple
• Medium or light dodge to backstab them
• Blink to backstab them
•Heavy poise runes to knock them out. In my experience these are usually the 100 cost ones, not 50. Take the Twin’s weapon for example, the 50 slam will bounce off but the 100 slam will pound them into the dirt
• Stand by a cliff, wait for them to charge, let gravity do the rest
• Let enemy friendly fire kill them
EDIT: Parry
Also, the rune special on Summer Sting is divine, so much damage.
I still would like charged attacks on the weapon though.