One Piece has several systems of powerscaling measurement, from Marine and pirate hierarchies to Devil Fruit classifications. But none are as recognizable as bounties, even if the system isn’t a clear-cut indicator of strength. In fact, the World Government assigns bounties based on a variety of factors, including potential threat, political manipulation, criminal activity, military power, and era-defining accomplishments.
Over the course of nearly 1,200 chapters, Eiichiro Oda has steadily revealed higher and higher bounties, with many of them reflecting a shift in the ongoing balance of power. And in many cases, a bounty can summarize years or even decades of overall influence on the world.
Trafalgar D. Law & Eustass Kid Have a 3 Billion Berry Bounty Each
As members of the Worst Generation aka the Supernovae, Trafalgar D. Water Law and Eustass Kid are two up-and-comers in the New World, the dangerous half of the Grand Line. Both of them allied with Luffy in Wano, allowing the Straw Hat to chase Kaido while they dealt with an equally nefarious threat. And Big Mom didn’t make it easy for them in the slightest.
If Kid and Law hadn’t already Awakened their Devil Fruits, the battlefield of Onigashima may have turned out to be their grave. These two incompatible fighters somehow managed to work in harmony, giving them enough combined power to end Big Mom’s reign as Emperor of the Sea. For their significant triumphs in Wano, Law and Kid were each awarded a bounty of three billion berries.
CBR Exclusive · One Piece Quiz WHICH ONE PIECE LEGEND ARE YOU? Set sail — Quiz sequence initiated The Grand Line stretches endlessly before you. Across its treacherous waters, legends are born — forged in Devil Fruit power, unbreakable will, and the fierce loyalty of a crew that would sail into any storm. Twenty questions. One legendary result. Your adventure begins now.
Luffy
Zoro
Nami
Robin
Sanji
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The Going Merry is ready to leave port. What’s your first move? How you set sail says everything about who you are at sea.
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A Marine warship is blocking your route. You: Crisis response reveals your true pirate nature.
03
You find a Devil Fruit on the table. What do you hope it is? The fruit you crave is the power you were always meant to have.
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What is your one, unshakeable dream? Every great pirate sails for something deeper than treasure.
05
The Thousand Sunny docks at a new island. First stop? What you do first in port reveals your deepest priorities.
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Your greatest weapon aboard the ship? Every Straw Hat has one thing that makes them irreplaceable.
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What’s your natural role when things get tense? The pressure moment is where your true function reveals itself.
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Honest confession — what is actually your biggest flaw? Even the greatest pirates have one thing they’re still working on.
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A crewmate is in serious danger. You: How you protect the people you sail with is who you truly are.
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Halfway across the Grand Line. What keeps you going? Not the crew’s reason. Yours. The private one.
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You lost the fight. The crew is watching. Now what? How you rise after falling is what separates legends from passengers.
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Your bounty poster just went up. What’s on it? The World Government describes you the way your enemies see you.
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Free day on a peaceful island. What actually happens? How you rest is a window into what drives you when no one’s watching.
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What does your crew actually say about you behind your back? The people who sail with you see the version you can’t.
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Which Haki do you feel most aligned with? The Haki you master reflects the deepest truth of who you are.
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What does it truly mean to you to be a pirate? Not Garp’s definition. Not the Marines’. Yours.
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In a hundred years, what will they say about you? The Void Century has room for one more name. What does yours mean?
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A Warlord of the Sea is blocking the path forward. You: Warlords don’t intimidate legends. They reveal them.
19
The crew celebrates a big victory. Your contribution? How you celebrate says as much as how you fight.
20
You reach Laugh Tale. The One Piece is real. What do you do? Twenty questions. One truth. No turning back now.
The Grand Line has made its judgement YOUR ONE PIECE LEGEND
Your scores are revealed below! The character with the highest number is your One Piece counterpart. Read their profile to discover your true pirate destiny.
Luffy
Zoro
Nami
Robin
Sanji
You don’t understand the word impossible — not because you’re naive, but because you genuinely never accepted that it applied to you. You charge into every situation with the full force of your personality, your body, and your heart, and somehow the universe rearranges itself to accommodate you. You don’t lead through command; you lead through being so completely, recklessly yourself that everyone around you becomes a better version of who they were. You eat too much, feel too loudly, and care too deeply. The world calls it recklessness. Your crew calls it home.
You have made exactly one promise and you have organised your entire existence around keeping it. Stoic to a fault, terrifying in combat, and somehow always facing the wrong direction — you are the immovable foundation that the whole crew leans against when everything else shakes. You don’t ask for recognition. You don’t need it. The work is its own reward. The sword is the path and the path is the sword. You will lose a thousand times before you reach the top, and you will get back up every single time. That is not stubbornness. That is who you are.
You are sharper than anyone in the room and you know it — but you also know exactly when not to show it. Pragmatic, resourceful, and carrying more than you ever show on your face, you are the reason the ship reaches anywhere at all. Every route was planned by you. Every impossible weather reading, every near-catastrophe avoided — that was you. The world tried to take everything from you once, and you built something extraordinary out of the wreckage. You love the people you’ve chosen fiercely, quietly, and without much ceremony. The map isn’t finished. You’ll get there.
You spent so long being hunted for what you know that you forgot — briefly, painfully — that you were also worth loving for who you are. You carry the weight of erased history in your memory and the quiet certainty of someone who has survived what should have been unsurvivable. Calm where others panic, perceptive where others miss everything, and in possession of a dark humour that still catches people off guard. You don’t trust easily, and when you do, it is the most complete and devastating loyalty imaginable. You want to know the truth. You deserve to live to read it.
You have principles carved so deep they function like a skeleton — invisible, structural, and the thing holding everything else upright. You cook for people because food is love expressed at its most honest. You fight for the crew because protecting them is the most natural thing in the world. You are elegant, occasionally absurd, capable of extraordinary tenderness and absolutely terrifying combat in the same five-minute span. You came from darkness and chose light so deliberately and so completely that it became your defining act. The sea called and you answered. All Blue is out there. You’ll find it.
Monkey D. Luffy’s 3 Billion Bounty Underestimates His Potential
Luffy unleashes his Conqueror’s Haki at Marineford in One PieceImage via Toei Animation
Although Luffy also received the same bounty as Law and Kid, it has never made sense to the fandom. The prevailing theory revolves around the Five Elders’ fear of the Nika Devil Fruit, whose Awakening into Gear 5 was like the tolling of a funeral bell. As all tyrants do when faced with insurmountable opposition, the World Government severely downplayed Luffy by framing his victory as a joint achievement by all three captains.
Ending Luffy after he became the Warrior of Liberation has to be worth far more than three billion berries to the World Government, especially since they were previously willing to pay five billion to acquire just the Gum-Gum Fruit. That said, the bounty valuations will likely adjust themselves when Luffy becomes the Pirate King, but this could also happen after the fall of the World Government and the termination of the bounty system.
Buggy Hasn’t Earned a Fraction of His 3.189 Billion Bounty
Buggy the Clown asserts himself as a powerful captain during One Piece’s Summit WarImage via Toei Animation
Unlike Luffy, Buggy has been overestimated by the World Government to such a degree that he currently has a bounty of 3.189 billion berries. The Star Clown has no real accomplishments, except perhaps constantly failing upwards. Buggy has broken out of Impel Down, garnered a horde of dedicated followers, become a Warlord of the Sea, and started a massive organization called Buggy’s Delivery. And this was all before the timeskip.
Since then, Buggy has found silver linings in the darkest clouds, turning what could have been a disaster for him into yet another unbelievable rise in status. This has all culminated in his recognition as an Emperor of the Sea, a title that Buggy simultaneously enjoys and catastrophizes. He knows that he’s expected to be worthy of the bounty given to him, however, and fans believe that Buggy will inevitably be a real candidate for the One Piece.
Dracule Mihawk’s Reputation Alone is Worth 3.59 Billion Berries
Mihawk displays a neutral face, eyes looking to the side in One PieceImage via Toei Animation
The Strongest Swordsman in the World casually decimated Roronoa Zoro during their first meeting, during which the latter wept for the first and only time in One Piece. Zoro’s declaration about taking Dracule Mihawk’s title wasn’t made in vain, either, as the Strawhat Swordsman has become one of the most dangerous powerhouses on the Grand Line. And yet, he’s nowhere near being able to defeat Dracule Mihawk, explaining the gap of 2.5 billion berries between their bounties.
Despite Mihawk’s lack of measurable onscreen feats aside from his vague participation in the Marineford War, it’s clear that his reputation precedes him. For context, Mihawk and Shanks were sparring partners until the latter lost his arm, upsetting Mihawk because it was against his code to fight an arguably “weakened” opponent. As such, watching Zoro defeat Mihawk will undoubtedly become one of the story’s highlights.
Blackbeard Is Building to a Bounty Far Greater Than 3.996 Billion Berries
Blackbeard drinking with women and the Blackbeard pirates in One PieceImage via Toei Animation
Blackbeard is the most mysterious carrier of the Will of D, the middle initial borne by some of the biggest players in One Piece. The story refuses to delve into the specific details of his character arc, instead showcasing his gradual evolution into a force of nature. After acquiring Whitebeard’s apocalyptic Tremor-Tremor Fruit at Marineford, Blackbeard became the only character to simultaneously wield two Devil Fruits, with the other being the equally fearsome Dark-Dark Fruit.
Whatever Blackbeard has been up to behind the scenes may not be known to anyone other than his Ten Titanic Captains, comprising a formidable grand fleet of Devil Fruit users. The World Government’s lowballing tactic on Luffy might have also been applied to Blackbeard, whose ambitions remain shrouded in deception and secrecy. Still, 3,996,000,000 is hardly a small number.
Shanks Dominates the New World with a Bounty Exceeding 4 Billion
Shanks is the only Emperor of the Sea to keep the title he always had, with the other three removed from the equation and replaced with Luffy, Buggy, and Blackbeard. An unstoppable force of nature without even having a Devil Fruit, Shanks is the ultimate example of Kaido’s claim that Haki would decide the fate of the world. The Red-Haired captain has used Conqueror’s Haki on rare occasions, but all of them have been awe-inspiring.
Shanks bounty, slightly above 4 billion berries, somewhat matches the power and authority he has canonically displayed in One Piece, from clashing on equal terms with Whitebeard and terrorizing Admiral Ryokugyu to defeating Loki in the past and destroying Kid in the present. That said, there are probably a lot more accomplishments that both the fans and the World Government know nothing about because Shanks is just as mysterious as Blackbeard.
Big Mom Bounty of 4.388 Billion Berries Reflects Her Reign
Big Mom smiles and raises her hands in One PieceImage via Toei Animation
Big Mom’s greatest dream is ironically the same as Luffy’s, except the hero doesn’t use the worst possible tactics to bring about a better world. In fact, Charlotte Linlin had always possessed a tendency for violence, starting with her accidental murder of an elderly giant when she was just five years old. She later obtained the Soul-Soul Fruit via possibly cannibalistic means, gradually growing her family along with her crew.
Boasting a deluxe bounty of 4.388 billion berries, the violently matriarchal Linlin terrorized the Grand Line for decades. Big Mom was so powerful that Kid and Law nearly lost their lives to defeat her. While she has disappeared from the story, it feels like Big Mom’s arc has yet to come to an end. Luffy never actually defeated her, leaving the possibility open for him to settle the score for Whole Cake Island.
Kaido’s 4.61111 Billion Bounty Came from Decades of Tyranny
Kaido in dragon form in One PieceImage via Toei Animation
Known as the Strongest Creature in the World thanks to his Azure Dragon Devil Fruit, Kaido’s first fight with Luffy ended with a single punch. The hero of One Piece continued to challenge him, leading to a second, fragmented battle that saw Luffy’s death followed immediately by the appearance of Gear 5 for the first time in 800 years. But when Luffy was resurrected as the Sun God Nika, Kaido was delighted to get another opportunity to pulverize his opponent.
The fact that Kaido fought evenly against Gear 5, even for a brief duration, is all the testament necessary to merit his bounty of 4,6111,100,000 berries. That said, he had the same value before losing to Luffy, prescribed by the World Government to cover his various acts of terrorism and tyranny across the Grand Line. And if he had triumphed over Gear 5, Kaido’s bounty would have become the highest in One Piece.
Whitebeard’s Bounty of 5+ Billion Berries Defines His Legacy
Captain Whitebeard stands with his eyes closed while blood drips down his face during One Piece’s Marineford Arc.Image via Toei Animation
Whitebeard remained the Strongest Man in the World until his death at Marineford, proving why he had always been worthy of that epithet. He fought with every fiber of his being, exploiting the Tremor-Tremor Fruit to unleash havoc across the Navy Headquarters. Despite experiencing hundreds of injuries, including 267 sword wounds, 152 bullets, and 46 cannonballs, Whitebeard refused to stop — or be stopped — until he ran out of juice.
Before he affirmed the One Piece’s existence and died standing, however, Whitebeard taught Admiral Akainu a satisfactory lesson and nearly killed Blackbeard. With a 5.046 billion berry bounty, Whitebeard was also equal to Gol D. Roger, fighting the Pirate King for three days before ending their battle in a stalemate. The only arguably reason Roger’s bounty is marginally higher is because he found the One Piece.
Gol D. Roger’s 5.5648 Billion Bounty Has Yet to Be Topped
At a whopping 5,564,800,000 berries, Gol D. Roger’s bounty record has never been beaten. While it’s obvious that this staggering value is the result of him becoming the Pirate King, Roger was no slouch. Besides, the ongoing attempt to find the One Piece has turned the Grand Line into a maelstrom of chaos, so actually succeeding where countless others failed was obviously enough to make him the greatest threat to the World Government.
Fans saw a few glimpses into his power levels during the Elbaph arc’s God Valley Incident, where Roger gleefully tangled with dangerously overpowered enemies like the Knights of God. Although he needed Garp’s help to put a demonized Rocks D. Xebec down, Roger’s exploits reinforced why his bounty remains untouched decades after his death. Unfortunately, fans are unlikely to see the deceased Pirate King unleash hell, even through flashbacks.
