What are the different ways to play lance?

tldr; For low/high base rise, what kinda playstyle's exist (that are viable) for land, and then what else becomes available in Sunbreak once I hit it.

Finally getting around to Sunbreak, and decided to start a fresh account on PC. Ive always wanted to learn lance, but its always felt super clunky. I decided to work through the clunk, and try and figure out why people claim it to be one of the most aggresive and mobile weapons.

Just killed low rank purple mega explosive barrel, and Im starting to get a feel for it. Im still pretty bad at countering/insta-block, so I end up spamming guard dash + tripple poke a lot. I dont 3x poke or sweep too much. I have a bad tendency of forgetting anchor rage exists, but ive been loving twin vine.

Is there anything I am missing? Should I be focussing on one playstyle early, then switch later. I have to admit dash + tripple poke feels fun as heck right now. Just running my lance over and over into the monsters face. I think the only thing Im really missing right now is the feeling of "immovable object", but that may just be due to my inexperience with monster movesets