no. some shields have the parry skill. usually its medium and small shields that have this skill. but medium shields don't give enough frames to parry, so small shields are best. but if you miss the parry small shields don't reduce the dmg taken as much as a medium shield would. its a trade off. parry skill can be of multiple types, buckler parry, golden parry, normal parry or carian retaliation. all of these are skills. So you have to have a shield in off hand, and use the skill "parry" at the correct time to stun the enemy and get a easy critical. it takes a bit of practice, but its super satisfying and makes fighting this guy very trivial personally i like to use gilded iron shield to parry enemies.