5- SHANKS
Shanks is the captain of the Red Hair Pirates and one of the Four Emperors that rule over the New World. Shanks is a former member of the legendary Roger Pirates, the only pirate band to successfully conquer the Grand Line, starting out his pirate career on said crew as an apprentice alongside Buggy before forming his own crew after Gol D. Roger’s death. Notably, Shanks is the pirate who inspired Monkey D. Luffy to go on his own pirate journey.
He’s the youngest of the four Emperors and has a bounty of 4,048,900,000 Berries.
4 – BIG MOM
Big Mom is the captain of the Big Mom Pirates, the only female member of the Yonko and a former member of the Rocks Pirates.
At the early age of six, Linlin’s first known bounty was 50,000,000 Berries implying that even at such a young age she was considered a significant threat.
She has the highest known bounty for a female character at 4,388,000,000 Berries.
3 – KAIDO
Kaidou of the Beasts, renowned as the world’s “Strongest Creature”, is the Governor-General of the Beasts Pirates and one of the Four Emperors. Decades ago, before the formation of his own crew, Kaidou was an apprentice in the legendary Rocks Pirates.
Notably, he has a bounty of 4,611,100,000 Berries which is the highest known bounty of any pirate currently alive and third highest in history.
2 – WHITEBEARD
Whitebeard was the captain of the Whitebeard Pirates and was widely known as the “Strongest Man in the World” and, after Gol D. Roger’s death, the “Man Closest to One Piece”.
He was a member of the legendary Rocks Pirates for a certain period of his life, specifically until the God Valley Incident, when the crew met its downfall.
Whitebeard was one of the most powerful and influential pirates of his generation. He garnered the title “Strongest Man in the World” before even the late Pirate King Gol D. Roger’s death and was one of the world’s few to ever match Roger in one-on-one combat.
With his bounty of 5,046,000,000 Berries, Whitebeard had the second highest bounty in the whole series.
1 – GOL D. ROGER
Gol D. Roger was a legendary pirate who, as captain of the Roger Pirates, held the title of Pirate King and owned the legendary treasure known as One Piece.
Roger was famed as the man who did what no one thought possible—he conquered the Grand Line and amassed a vast fortune. Afterwards, knowing that he would soon die from an incurable disease, Roger disbanded his crew before turning himself in to be executed. The World Government intended to have Roger be publicly executed to discourage piracy, but his last words had the opposite impact. He stated that anyone who can find his treasure can claim it. As such, this made Roger single-handedly responsible for starting the Golden Age of Pirates.
As Pirate King, he retains the highest status among all the world’s pirates even post-mortem. Elucidating this is the truly enormous bounty he had prior to his death, with 5,564,800,000 Berries being the highest in pirating history. No single bounty has ever surpassed his!
