The Fastest Bounty Increases, Explained

In One Piece, the Bounty System has always been one of the most important concepts in the series. Acting as an in-universe power system, the Bounty System acts as a way of defining a pirate’s notoriety and strength, showing how much the Navy and the World Government fear them. However, more often than not, both pirates in the series and fans of the series alike celebrate bounty increases as a way of showing how far a pirate has come in the world of One Piece.

Due to this, increases in bounties have always been one of the most important parts of the series. Seeing how far Luffy and his crew have come after every couple of arcs with their new bounties is always one of the most highly anticipated moments in One Piece. Seeing the Straw Hat Crew’s meteoric rise with every new bounty shows just how far they’ve come since their humble beginnings in the East Blue. However, despite their massive progress, the Straw Hat Crew aren’t the only ones with a massive spike in bounties, with plenty of pirates in One Piece having huge bounty increases in the series.

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Some Characters Have Flown Through One Piece’s Bounty System

These Characters Have Massive Increases In Bounties Quickly

In One Piece, the Bounty System is a means of rewarding bounty hunters and citizens for the capture of various criminals throughout the world. Often, the bounty of a character is directly proportional to their threat level to the current order of One Piece’s World Government. Although there are some exceptions, this relatively refers to their strength, with stronger characters often being given higher bounties. Due to this, bounty increases in One Piece are more of a sign of a character getting stronger than anything else.

Although the Straw Hats arguably have the fastest bounty increases in the series through normal means, there are a few rules behind bounties that make a few other characters have meteoric rises. Namely, through the Warlord System in One Piece, pirates that decided to ally themselves with the World Government would have their bounty frozen, oftentimes at a fairly low amount relative to their power. Due to this, most of the fastest-growing bounties in One Piece belong to these characters.

The Straw Hat Crew And Warlords Had Their Bounties Skyrocket

They Went From Very Low To Billions Of Berries

• The Straw Hats Are One Of The Fastest Growing Groups
• The Warlords Had Huge Increases Due To Frozen Bounties

Firstly, it goes without saying, that in terms of being traditional pirates, the Straw Hats have the fastest-growing bounties in One Piece, specifically, for characters like Sanji, Zoro, and Luffy. Over their short time as pirates, these members of One Piece’s Straw Hat Crew have gone from having no bounties to having bounties in the billions in only a few years, with Luffy’s sitting at a whopping 3 billion Berries. As for the rest of the crew, minus Chopper, their bounties have also increased at a substantial rate over time, with few of the crew members having huge bounties before joining the crew.

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However, the next pirates that have had the fastest rise in bounty belong to the former Warlords. After the Navy dissolved the Warlord System in One Piece, characters like Boa Hancock and Crocodile had massive increases to their bounty all at once. For the villain of Alabasta, Crocodile, especially, the pirate went from having a bounty of 80 million Berries to a bounty of nearly 2 billion Berries. Although this seems like an incredible jump, another Warlord surpasses even Crocodile in this field.

Buggy Has Had A Massive Bounty Growth In One Piece

From 15 Million To Having A Higher Bounty Than Luffy

Buggy, before becoming a Warlord, had a fairly small bounty, sitting at only 15 million Berries. However, after becoming a Warlord and having his bounty frozen, Buggy didn’t receive his next bounty increase until after he became an Emperor of the Sea in One Piece. Virtually overnight, Buggy’s bounty jumped from 15 million Berries to 3.189 billion Berries, making him the fastest-growing bounty in One Piece.

In the end, although the bounty system has its flaws, mainly making weaker figures like Buggy feel more imposing on society as a whole, it’s one of the most beloved and interesting aspects of One Piece. By giving fans a lore-accurate way to see the progress of their favorite pirates, the Bounty System will always remind fans of how quickly these characters have grown throughout the story. Hopefully, by the end of Elbaf in One Piece, new bounties will be revealed, showing the new heights that the Straw Hat Crew will reach.

One Piece

Release Date

October 20, 1999

Network

Fuji TV

Directors

Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou

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  Mayumi Tanaka

  Monkey D. Luffy (voice)

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  Kazuya Nakai

  Roronoa Zoro (voice)