Shogi Skill Issue

Where do I go to meet players who are about as bad as me at the game? In chess, I could slowly improve by playing from 800 lichess to where I am now, but there are so few players on this site that I can't really do that here. How am I meant to learn by playing when I can't play? Even the second-level bot is leagues better than me.

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@COArSe_D1RTxxx
There's a couple options; you could play correspondence, there's a bit more life in the correspondence games here mostly because - like you said - the overall playerbase is somewhat too small to have a lot of live games.
You could also play handicap games:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handicap_(shogi)
I've said it before on this site, but players coming from chess tend to not play handicap games as it's not a tradition of western chess (anymore), and it might seem "condescending" or "demeaning" to them. This is very unfortunate, as shogi has a pretty long history of handicap games, and there are whole systems of different handicaps that top level players use to train with each other.
So you could play against a stronger computer, but give the computer a handicap; or you could play against the computer you can already beat, while taking the handicap yourself.

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I personally don't love handicaps, as I don't know how well they help with non-handicapped games for newcomers (other than possibly getting used to the board?)

I recommend playing with the AI on bullet and play over and over again to get used to its moves through trial and error—this was what I did!

Start with correspondence games, and move onto live games when you feel more confident~

Also, Merry Christmas y'all!!! 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

Also, Also, tsume puzzles! (they should feel relatively easier than regular ones)

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