So with the new League coming i made a Shield Crush Poison Champion Theory craft. I havent compared it yet to Impale Shield Crush, but the Poison version looks good on paper. Especially with the changes to Obliteration and Mings(for Softcore), the build should have pretty good clear and some potentially good single target damage.

The gear i used in the Pob should be pretty "cheap", or farmable in SSF. Its primarly Resist, Life and some Spell Suppress.

The Idea was, since Seismic Trap is gone as a Budget Option, and Melee staying kinda untouched, that Shield Crush looks pretty good for easy Poison stacking with the overlapping waves and some attack speed.

I used Champion as Ascendancy since its still pretty broken as a defencive Ascendancy, you could use a different one if you want more damage.

The Build still uses Grace, Determination and Defiance Banner for Defence, which probably makes it HC viable.(The gear as said above, should be obtainable in SSF too, if you cant get Obliteration just use some poison weapon)

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PoB: https://pastebin.com/AzfTXR3N

The Tree probably needs further optimizing, but it looks fine as a first draft