I would say that the thing that makes hunter so great is their jump and dodge. The dodge nor jump does not negate any damage, other than a glitch with at bolt Grenades that I have seen. One reason that you may be finding little success while trying to shoulder charge is because it uses destiny’s melee physics and I think we all know that they are terrible, also unless utilized very well it is pretty easy to dodge, especially when facing high tier player like u said you were facing at lighthouse games. One thing that I think is wrong about your post is when you said that hunters had almost all of the pvp exotics. I would just like to point out that in reality hunter mains only use stompees or worm husk bc the others are quite underwhelming. All of the classes are in a similar situation with titans only really having three, oem, dunemarchers, and synthoceps. Warlocks also only really have three, ophidian aspect, transversives, and ophidia spade.