We have known Gol D. Roger, the pirate king of ONE PIECE, for a long time. The character was for a long time an almost mythological individual due to the legend of his treasure. The execution in Logue Town led to the beginning of the great age of piracy, in which the protagonist Monkey D. Luffy also takes part.
To become king of the pirates, he inevitably had to surround himself with very strong people. Gol D. Rogers crew was revealed on an SBS by Volume 96 of ONE PIECE, but who are the three strongest members of this group? Let’s analyze the information we received specifically in Oden Kozuki’s flashback to clarify our ideas.
At the head of the group is inevitably the Captain Gol D. Roger. Between haki and extraordinary strength, the swordsman who will become the king of the pirates can compete on equal terms, if not more, with characters of Whitebeard caliber.
The Deputy Captain Silvers Rayleigh is number two on the crew. The name already gives some meaning to the character in this group, but we got the chance to see him in action in the Sabaody Archipelago as well. Here, despite his now venerable age, he managed to stop an admiral of the Kizaru caliber without too many problems. His strength earned him the nickname of the Dark King, who, despite the past few years, still makes everyone tremble.
And for the third member? The fight could be more interesting here. There are many strong characters in Roger’s crew, like the Douglas Bullet who appeared in the movie ONE PIECE: Stampede, but third place is from play between Oden Kozuki and Scopper Gaban. According to the thread of names, after gold and silver, there is copper or copper. Oda’s emphasis on this valuable material could suggest that Scopper Gaban is the third strongest member of Roger’s crew.
The Roger himself points to Scopper Gaban as his strongest lieutenant along with Silvers Rayleigh, and that means that even a powerful character like Oden Kozuki could be inferior to him. I am waiting to see him in action in ONE PIECE in the present and told in the past that he arrived with his captain.