One Piece may be about the race to become Pirate King, but that doesn't mean that there aren't a few strong ladies riding on the seas. While its female character designs have left a lot to be admired, the level of agency for its girls hasn't.

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One Piece is host to some of the strongest and most influential female characters in the anime world. Some of them rank among some of the strongest Marines. Others are leading entire tirades with their own pirate crews. No matter their background, the Grand Line is filled with incredibly tough and capable women.

Updated on June 19, 2022 by George Voutiritsas: One Piece will go down as one of the best written shonen series of all time. The series is filled with complex characters who have had incredible arcs. Like other series, One Piece doesn't shy away from introducing strong female characters who can hold their own in a fight. Many of these women possess unique fighting styles, innate abilities, or Devil Fruit Powers. If someone were to ask a One Piece fan who the strongest women in the series are, most of them will give the same answer, but there are plenty of other women who deserve to be mentioned.

15 Kalifa Was The Only Female Member Of CP9

Kalifa In Her CP9 Attire

The Water 7 Arc introduced several elements to One Piece's story, including the World Government's Cipher Pol organization which specialized in covert assassinations. CP9's only female member, Kalifa possessed superhuman strength, and specialized in kick-based fighting.

Like other CP9 members, Kalifa mastered the superhuman martial arts fighting style known as Rokushiki, and she had the power of the Bubble-Bubble Fruit. This power allowed her to create and control bubbles and soap. With it, she could drain an enemy's energy by leaving them extremely clean and smooth. She could even condense the bubbles for defensive purposes.

14 Baby 5 Is A Literal Living Weapon Thanks To Her Devil Fruit

Baby 5 Using Her Devil Fruit To Create Multiple Weapons

Doflamingo ruled Dressrosa for years, making him one of One Piece's most successful villains, but he couldn't do it alone. Baby 5 was one of Doflamingo's officers, and served in the Pica Army as an assassin. She was quite durable, and ate the Arms-Arms Fruit.

This Devil Fruit allows Baby 5 to transform her entire body, or select parts, into any type of weapon she chooses. She can make swords, guns, cannons, and even missiles. She may lack superhuman physical strength, but she's a literal living weapon.

13 Monet Possessed A Logia-Type Devil Fruit

One Piece, Monet fighting Luffy in the Punk Hazard Arc

Like Baby 5, Monet was an officer of the Donquixote Pirates, and she served as one of the antagonists of the Punk Hazard Arc. She was born human, but she was turned into a harpy soon after she and her sister were rescued by Doflamingo. She had razor sharp talons and could fly thanks to her large wings, which also functioned as hands.

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Monet ate the Snow-Snow Fruit, a Logia which allowed her to create and transform into snow at will. She could create blizzards to give herself a territorial advantage, and she could force her enemies into states of hyperthermia. Like other Logia users, she was immune to most physical attacks.

12 Carrot Is A Powerful Member Of The Mink Tribe

carrot sulong in one piece

Carrot is a recent addition to the One Piece's already wonderful lineup of powerful ladies, but she's made a clear impression across her short run. With quite s nose for adventure, Carrot's Mink origins and spry personality have made her one of the most active personalities on the Thousand Sunny.

Carrot's base form makes her one of the crew's strongest fighters, but in her Sulong form, she reaches an entirely new level of awesome and terrifying. Capable of taking on fleets of Big Mom's crew, Carrot is easily the strongest female Mink the series has introduced thus far.

11 Nami Can Essentially Control The Weather

Nami Fight

Nami may be part of the Cowardly Trio, but that doesn't mean her enemies should underestimate her. Her time as a Cat Burglar and member of the Arlong Pirates gives her plenty of combat experience for any battle scenario. Nami is arguably the world's best navigator. With the addition of her constantly evolving Clima-Tact, Nami gets to add Weather Goddess among her already climbing resume. She's capable of making mirage clones, summoning tornadoes, and summoning powerful thunderstorms. Adding Big Mom's own Zeus to her power set, Nami demonstrates why the rest of the Straw Hats are scared of her.

10 Black Maria Was One Of Kaido's Strongest Officers

Black Maria Of The Beast Pirates

The Wano Arc is filled with great and well-animated fights, including the one between Black Maria and Nico Robin. Maria is one of Kaido's Flying Six, making her one of the Beast Pirates' strongest officers. During the raid on Onigashima, it's stated that she can easily defeat 100 enemies by herself.

Like her fellow officers, Maria possessed a Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit, but her fruit allowed her to transform into a prehistoric spider. She could walk on walls with her six legs, and each leg was lined with poisonous barbs. She carried brass knuckles which she used to pummel her enemies once she immobilized them with her webbing.

9 Nico Robin Possesses A Very Effective Devil Fruit Power

Nico Robin fighting in One Piece.

When Nico Robin first debuted in the series, she came off as this classic femme fatale. She was one of Baroque Works' top agents and Sir Crocodile's second-in-command. Robin was personally in charge of taking out the Straw Hats when they first made contact with Princess Vivi and would later take on Crocodile in Alabasta.

After joining the Straw Hats, Robin continued showing her fangs, taking out one of Enel's top priests, defeating squads of Marine and pirate forces, and protecting Rebecca from some of Diamante's toughest hits on Dressrosa. Capable of summoning clones, giant versions of her self, and neck-breaking arms from anywhere, Nico Robin proved one of the deadliest characters in anime. She also defeated Black Maria during the Onigashima raid with a powerful never-before-seen ability.

8 Jewelry Bonney Is The Only Female Member Of The Worst Generation

Jewelry Bonney from One Piece

Jewelry Bonney has barely appeared in the series, but she's still the only female member of the Worst Generation — some of the most active members of the new generation of pirates. Bonney has personally challenged the likes of Blackbeard and even the inner workings of Mariejois.

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Jewelry has a Devil Fruit ability that lets her control the ages of anyone that she can touch, even herself. While not much is known about her infamy, she's shown plenty of spunk to keep people from underestimating her.

7 Vinsmoke Reiju Is A Strong Super-Soldier

Vinsmoke Reiju in One Piece.

Vinsmoke Reiju is a new entry to the One Piece world that fans are just dying to see more of. She's part of the infamous and elusive Visnmoke Family who's threatened the World Government for years. She's one of Vinsmoke Judge's favorite children and one of his successful projects to make his own children into super-soldiers.

On top of her inherent gifts, Reiju has access to one of the Germa's infamous Raid Suits. Each of them grant the user incredible strength, such as enough leg power to naturally do Moon Walk. However, Reiju's own uniform adds a special ability that lets her suck out and disperse powerful poisons on a whim.

6 Catarina Devon Was One Of Impel Down's Most Dangerous Prisoners

Catarina Devon from One Piece

Catarina Devon is one of the leading members of the Blackbeard Pirates and one of the prisoners of Impel Down that the World Government tries to erase from history. Known as the "Crescent Moon Hunter," she shows malice worthy of such a name.

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One Piece recently revealed Catarina had the Devil Fruit power of a nine-tailed fox, which already let her copy other people's forms if not more. With enough combat strength to survive Blackbeard's dastardly recruiting process, Catarina Devon proved a fearful opponent.

5 Vice Admiral Tsuru Is One Of The Longest Serving Marines

suru Uses Her Wash Wash Fruit

Tsuru is one of the oldest, most experienced soldiers among the Marines. She's recognized as the "Great Staff Officer" and is a direct colleague to Monkey D. Garp and former Fleet Admiral Sengoku. Marine training and status alone make Tsuru a pretty tough cookie, but she also has the power of the Wash Wash Fruit.

With it, Tsuru could instantly wash people of their sins and contort their bodies like dish towels. Equipped with a power much more terrifying than it sounds and some profound battle history, Vice Admiral Tsuru shouldn't be underestimated by the new generation of pirates.

4 Charlotte Smoothie Is One Of Big Mom's Sweet Commanders

Charlotte Smoothie lounging with a drink in One Piece.

It's a shame Whole Cake Island only lasted as long as it did, considering Eiichiro Oda dangled Charlotte Smoothie in front of everyone without actually letting her do anything. Smoothie was presumably Big Mom's strongest daughter and one of her Sweet Commanders, racking up a bounty of 932 million beli.

As a member of the long arm tribe, Charlotte has some inherent combat strength on her side plus a bit of Big Mom's monstrous energy. Her Devil Fruit ability lets her contort and literally ring out her enemies' essence as if they were oranges or dish towels. Her demeanor easily commands respect and deserves a good fight scene in the future.

3 Boa Hancock Was The Only Female Warlord

Boa Hancock using her Devil Fruit Power in One Piece.

As Boa Hancock stated after the Reverie, the Seven Warlords were chosen because they were strong. Hancock herself was no different and displayed a chilling dominance, clear leadership skills, and some of the most consistent combat ability in the series.

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Boa was challenged by powerful pirate and Marine alike, showing no fear against any opponent. Much of this has to do with Boa's overpowered Devil Fruit which lets her turn anyone who's attracted to her, man or woman, into stone.

2 Big Mom Was The Only Female Emperor Of The Sea

Big Mom wielding her iconic weapon with a scary expression on her face

"Big Mom" Charlotte Linlin was literally born with otherworldly strength, such that her own parents had to abandon her on the island of giants. Even there, she managed to strike fear into and overpower some of the community's strongest residents. She would go on to gain the abilities of the Soul Soul Fruit (the exact origins of which were too terrifying to classify within the manga) and cultivated a pirate career from a very young age.

Big Mom would become one of the infamous members of the Rocks Pirates and, much later, one of the Four Emperors who led entire nations with a sugar coated fist. With strength that could tank Luffy's Gear Fourth and power that let her control the oceans and fire itself, Big Mom wasn't only one of the series' strongest female characters, but one of the strongest characters in its entirety. Big Mom faced Kaido in combat as an equal, and it took two Supernovas with Devil Fruit Awakening to defeat her.

1 Shirahoshi Can Literally Destroy The World If She Wanted To

Princess Shirahoshi from One Piece with open mouth looking shocked.

Shirahoshi is a mermaid and the princess of the Ryugu Kingdom. Despite her massive appearance, Shirahoshi is a kindhearted individual. When the Straw Hats first encountered her, Shirahoshi's easily frightened. She also happens to be the current incarnation of one of the strongest weapons in all of One Piece.

The weapon in question is called Poseidon, and according to the World Government, it's one of three ancient weapons which can destroy the entire world. Poseidon gives Shirahoshi the ability to control Sea Kings, the massive carnivorous monsters that live in all the world's oceans. Sea Kings can sink entire islands, and Shirahoshi can unleash them at anytime if she wishes.