Like manyshonenanime and manga , One Pieceis a serial publication whose devotee are often prostrate to powerscaling . The action - pack nature of the narrative has people perpetually contend which characters are the strongest , and even when there are definitive hierarchies , they ’ll still look for ways to upscale or background sealed character all for the rice beer of pushing a specific agendum .

Powerscaling inOne Pieceis something that will never truly go away , and besides single fictional character , intact groups are also victims of it . Because of howOne Piece ’s fib is structure , each electric discharge tends to rotate around the fight between specific mathematical group of people instead of one - on - one fights , and as such , powerscaling inOne Pieceoften ask trying to figure out how entire groups of characters compare to one another . At least with pirate crews , it ’s easy enough to figure out how the strong stand against one another , and that ’s plenty worth bet into .

10The Heart Pirates

First Appearance: One Piece Chapter 498; Episode 392

The Heart Pirates are the pirate crew headed by Trafalgar Law , one of the original members of the bad Generation and a former appendage of the Seven Warlords of the Sea . The Heart Pirates allied with the Straw Hat literary pirate to kill Kaido , which pop as a artifice before becoming legitimate , and following Kaido ’s defeat , they ’ve since return to being adversaries .

The Heart Pirates , as a whole , have never had a lot of sentence in the spotlight , but not only did practice of law defeat Big Mom with help from Kid , unlike the Kid Pirates , the Heart Pirates just barely survived a one - on - one fight with an Emperor ’s work party i.e. the Blackbeard Pirates in the Egghead arc , although they were still all but destroy in the end . The Heart Pirates might not be the strongest of the top - tier sea robber crews , but their powerfulness ca n’t be underestimate , regardless .

9Cross Guild

First Appearance: One Piece Chapter 1056; Episode 1083

Cross Guild is a bounty hunter organization that specializes in assigning bounties to Marines , an idea that ’s fill the worldly concern with an uncontrollable amount of topsy-turvyness . While Cross Guild was in the first place Crocodile and Mihawk ’s thought , a smorgasbord of circumstances run to Buggy getting the credit rating for everything , resulting in Buggy being recognized as an Emperor survey Kaido and Big Mom ’s defeat , despite him just being a figurehead Crocodile and Mihawk abuse daily .

Cross Guild is incredibly powerful just from having Crocodile and Mihawk as members , but a plenty of their military force comes from Buggy ’s mercenary group Buggy ’s Delivery , which had just recently accept a striking when Harjudin and his fellow giants , Buggy ’s unattackable employee , left to join the Straw Hat Grand Fleet . As such , even with them being recognized as an Emperor ’s gang , it would be previous to place Cross Guild too extremely among pirate crews .

8The Straw Hat Pirates

First Appearance: One Piece Chapter 5; Episode 3

The Straw Hat Piratesare the main sea robber crew ofOne Pieceand , as such , are captain by series agonist Monkey D. Luffy . The group has gradually grow in power and ill fame over the years , and following the licking of Kaido and Big Mom , Luffy was declared an Emperor , making the Straw Hat pirate one of the most infamous pirate crowd in the world .

The individual members of the Straw Hat Pirates are all improbably hefty belligerent , but due to their small number and how hard it is to guess the ability of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet , the Straw Hat Pirates precipitate below many other pirate crews as an organization , despite the military strength of their individual penis . Defeating Kaido and Big Mom , for deterrent example , would have been inconceivable on their own , so it ’s backbreaking to rank them too extremely , despite being the principal characters .

7The Red-Haired Pirates

First Appearance: One Piece Chapter 1; Episode 4

The Red - Haired Pirates are the first pirate crew introduce inOne Pieceand captain by “ Red - Haired ” Shanks , Luffy ’s matinee idol and Roger ’s apprentice . In the time since Luffy first met them , Shanks has rise to become one of the Four Emperors , and as such , the Red - Haired Pirates are understand as one of the strongest pirate crews in all ofOne Piece .

The centre group of the Red - Haired Piratesis continually show as being incredibly powerful , with them having such illustrious feats as Beckman forcing Kizaru to take suspension and shank singlehandedly destroying the Kid Pirates . However , they ’re also known to ally with blatantly weak literary pirate crews just because Shanks is admirer with them , making them solely reliant on the force of the core group . The power of the Red - Haired Pirates is play down by their deficiency of strong allies , and as such , they do n’t rank too highly against the other Emperors .

6The Blackbeard Pirates

First Appearance: One Piece Chapter 234; Episode 151

The Blackbeard Pirates are the pirate crew of Marshall D. Teach i.e. the eponymic Blackbeard . Blackbeard used his place as a Warlord to infiltrate Impel Down and recruit some of the mortal prisoners , and after killing Whitebeard and gain his Tremor - Tremor Fruit alongside his Dark - Dark Fruit , Blackbeard rapidly build up power until he took Whitebeard ’s place as an Emperor .

Despite how new the Blackbeard Pirates are , the huge power and size of it of their crowd still will them a force to be calculate with , especially with howthe Blackbeard Pirates have added Kuzan i.e. Admiral Aokiji , someone who can admit his own against Garp , into their ranks . It ’s still concentrated to try their power thanks to how little they ’ve done in late years , but with how Blackbeard is set up to be one of the last villains of the series , that ’s poised to change very soon .

5The Big Mom Pirates

First Appearance: One Piece Chapter 651; Episode 570

The Big Mom Pirates is the pirate bunch of former Emperor Big Mom and is represent mostly of Big Mom ’s children , the Charlotte Family . bighearted Mom was a notable member of the ill-famed Rocks Pirates , and after their disbandment , she became one of the biggest figure in the New World and held that spot for decades until she was defeated by Law and Kid in the Wano arc .

As a former Emperor ’s work party , the Big Mom Pirates have been a force to be calculate with since their launching ; not only was Katakuri one of Luffy ’s toughest opposer inOne Piece , butBig Mom was so powerful that Law and Kid just scantily defeated her by working together . The Big Mom Pirates ’ current status after Big Mom ’s defeat is up in the zephyr , but they remain one of the biggest pirate crews to ever seem inOne Piece , disregardless .

4The Beast Pirates

First Appearance: One Piece Chapter 595; Episode 513

The Beast Pirates , also known as the Animal Kingdom Pirates in some translations , is the plagiariser crew of former Emperor Kaido , once known worldwide as the world ’s impregnable animate being . After the disbandment of the Rocks Pirates , Kaido slowly progress up power until he became recognize as an Emperor , and he had the mellow amplitude of all the Emperors after Whitebeard ’s last , as well .

Not only are Kaido and his main fighter masters of Haki and herculean Zoan Devil Fruits , but the Beast Pirates are also armed with powerful contrived Devil Fruits squall SMILEs good manners of Donquixote Doflamingo , one of the most Warlords who was also in Kaido ’s employment . The raw power of the Beast Pirates surpassed any other plagiariser crew inOne Piece ’s post - timeskip era , and if Luffy did n’t have the specific allies that he did , it would have been impossible for them to have been defeated at Onigashima .

3The Whitebeard Pirates

First Appearance: One Piece Chapter 154; Episode 91

The Whitebeard Pirates were the crew of the late Emperor Whitebeard , Roger ’s biggest rival who was once reckon as the existence ’s strongest homo . After Whitebeard and Ace ’s deaths in the Paramount War , the surviving members of the Whitebeard Pirates were defeated by the Blackbeard Pirates in another conflict called the Payback War , and that going has left the gang defunct ever since .

While the Whitebeard Pirates have disband , back in their heyday , they were easily the strongest of the Emperor crews thanks to their sizing and overall top executive , something further emphasized by Whitebeard being one of the few who could match Roger in his prime and Marco stimulate a bevy of telling feat against King and Queen in the Wano arc . The entireness of the Marines ’ forces were almost destroyed by just the Whitebeard Pirates in the Paramount War , and overall , there should be no slap-up will to their power .

2The Roger Pirates

First Appearance: One Piece Chapter 19; Episode 8

The Roger Pirates were the plagiariser crew of Gol D. Roger , the fabled mogul of the Pirates who leave behind the mythical gem known as the One Piece with his death . After Roger ’s carrying into action and the rootage of the Great Age of Piracy , the Roger Pirates disbanded and went their separate ways , although many of them have become heavily involved in current events , most notably Shanks , Buggy , and Rayleigh .

Not much is know about the Roger Pirates ’ activities , butwhat niggling has been shown of the Roger has always render them as a nigh - unstoppable force inOne Piece , with exploit like Roger ’s explicit high quality to Whitebeard , Oden ’s licking of Kaido , and the Roger Pirates being the single to discover Laugh Tale dead representing their power . No modern - Clarence Shepard Day Jr. pirate gang has surpassed Roger and the Roger Pirates , and overall , it ’s sluttish to see why .

1The Rocks Pirates

First Appearance: One Piece Chapter 957; Episode 958

The Rocks Pirateswere a fabled sea robber bunch commanded by Rocks D. Xebec , an enigmatical figure who attempt to be the top executive of the world . Very small is known about the Rocks Pirates not just because of how late they were introduced , but because they were so dangerous that the World Government tried to erase all suggestion of their existence after they were overcome in the God Valley incident decades before the tale .

Not only were the Rocks Pirates compose of some of the strongest characters in all ofOne Piecelike Whitebeard , Big Mom , and Kaido , butthe Rocks Pirates were so powerful that Roger and Garp had to shape together to get the better of them . Any enemy that would squeeze Roger and Garp to go together is hard to even think , but that fact easy crap the Rocks Pirates thestrongest pirate crew in all ofOne Piece .

Created by Eiichiro Oda , One Piece is a multimedia system franchise that began as a manga series and follows the adventures of the Straw Hat Pirates as lead by Monkey D. Luffy . Luffy , an enthusiastic pirate with a thirst for escapade , is afflicted by a mysterious curse that gives him various powers he uses to protect himself and his champion . The manga eventually give means to the anime serial publication , with the two being some of history ’s tenacious - running Zanzibar copal and manga series . Along with over fifty television games made over the years , the series inscribe the live - action world with Netflix ’s 2023 adjustment .

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Created by Eiichiro Oda, One Piece is a multimedia franchise that began as a manga series and follows the adventures of the Straw Hat Pirates as led by Monkey D. Luffy. Luffy, an enthusiastic pirate with a thirst for adventure, is afflicted by a mysterious curse that gives him various powers he uses to protect himself and his friends. The manga eventually gave way to the anime series, with the two being some of history’s longest-running anime and manga series. Along with over fifty video games made over the years, the series entered the live-action world with Netflix’s 2023 adaptation.

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