Big Mom hasgreat mastery of [[Haki/Busoshoku Haki|Busoshoku Haki]]. By hardening her arm, she easily blocked Luffy's [[Gomu Gomu no Mi/Gear Fourth Techniques|Gear Fourth Kong Gun]], a tremendous feat as Luffy's Kong Gun is powerful enough to break through powerful Haki based defenses of highly skilled Busoshoku Haki users such as [[Donquixote Doflamingo|Doflamingo]], [[Charlotte Cracker|Cracker]], and [[Charlotte Katakuri|Katakuri]]. Like Luffy's Gear Fourth, her Busoshoku sports flame marks at its ending.{{qref|name=busoshoku|chap=871|Big Mom uses Busoshoku Haki to block Luffy's Kong Gun.}}
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Big Mom is a powerful master of [[Haki/Busoshoku Haki|Busoshoku Haki]]. By hardening her arm, she easily blocked Luffy's [[Gomu Gomu no Mi/Gear Fourth Techniques|Gear Fourth Kong Gun]], a tremendous feat as Luffy's Kong Gun is powerful enough to break through powerful Haki based defenses of highly skilled Busoshoku Haki users such as [[Donquixote Doflamingo|Doflamingo]], [[Charlotte Cracker|Cracker]], and [[Charlotte Katakuri|Katakuri]]. Like Luffy's Gear Fourth, her Busoshoku sports flame marks at its ending.{{qref|name=busoshoku|chap=871|Big Mom uses Busoshoku Haki to block Luffy's Kong Gun.}}
As one of the Yonko, Big Mom is one of the four most powerful pirates in the world.[1] As the only female member, this effectively makes Big Mom the single most powerful female pirate in the world. The Five Elders have stated that she is one of the few people capable of stopping Blackbeard.[2] When her fellow Yonko Kaido, known as the strongest creature in the world, threatened to kill her if she came to him, Big Mom simply invited him to try and said he would not be able to dissuade her.[3] Even the Straw Hat Pirates recognize that she could crush them quickly and easily if they fought her recklessly.[4][5]
Through her strength as one of the most powerful pirates, Big Mom has managed to amass a very powerful crew,[6] as well as several strong subordinates such as Jinbe, a fishman and former Shichibukai,[7] and Capone Bege, one of the members of the Worst Generation.[8] She possesses considerable influence within the Underworld as well, having connections to the Vinsmoke Family, which leads the legendary Germa 66.[9] Those who marry her children automatically become part of her crew.[10]
While under Big Mom's protection, Fishman Island is protected from pirate attacks, indicating a powerful influence similar to that of the late Whitebeard.[11] She is known to destroy entire countries over sweets[12] and is intimidating enough that even her underlings Pekoms and Tamago, who are powerful in their own right, are afraid of talking to her when she is angered.[13] In fact, almost everyone, including her own children, has been shown to fear her. Ironically, this fear makes Big Mom stronger due to the nature of her Devil Fruit powers.[14]
Big Mom's overall influence allows her to gather information about the backgrounds of people she is interested in, with said information being used to issue threats and demands.[15] It is said that even demons would attend her tea parties if they were invited.[16]
At the early age of six, Linlin's first known bounty was 50,000,000, implying that even at this time she was considered a real threat. This bounty later increased to at least 500,000,000.[17]
A five-year old Linlin fatally injuring Jorl, a large giant.
Big Mom has immense superhuman physical strength, demonstrated by her ability to climb tall buildings despite her massive size,[18] throw punches with tremendous destructive power,[19] and hurl Prometheus with extreme force using only a single arm.[20] When she was just five years old, she was strong enough to kill a large bear instantly with a single smack, merely intending to scold the animal, as well as break several of a giant's bones by trying to slap a mosquito on their back. When suffering from her cravings, she could destroy a village in Elbaf and defeat several armed giants without a single scratch, being described by Jorl as an "evil god in the form of a child".[21] She was strong enough to not only break Jorl's sword with her fist when he tried to attack her, but also grab the giant's beard, flip him over her shoulder, and smash him into the ground with enough force to mortally wound him. Carmel believed she had the potential to become an Admiral or Fleet Admiral of the Marines.[22]
Big Mom easily smashed through Bege's Big Father form whose fortified defenses are impervious to even cannonballs.
According to Bege, she can single-handedly wreak havoc on towns and sink battleships without any effort. During a craving-caused rampage of hers in Sweet City, it was estimated that, shortly, she might even bring down her mountain-sized castle itself if no one were to stop her.[23] Katakuri also noted that his mother can destroy Totto Land itself and cause even worse unimaginable destruction. She was also able to break through the metal doors of her castle's treasure room, which even her daughter and Sweet Commander Smoothie could not break through, just by walking into them.[24] Even while sleeping, she could smash the stone floor around her bed by simply tossing and turning, as well as do the same with a slap while half-asleep to merely kill a fly.[25] Big Mom also easily damaged Bege's Big Father fortress form, which has immense defensive power. Later on, Big Mom easily defeated Germa 66 commanders Vinsmoke Judge, Vinsmoke Niji, and Vinsmoke Yonji by herself, the latter two being genetically enhanced superhumans, without incurring so much as a scratch on her person.[26]
Big Mom also possesses tremendous superhuman durability due to her extremely tough skin, being compared by Vinsmoke Sanji and Capone Bege to an iron balloon. She is able to destroy cities, sink ships, and resist cannon and gun fire without receiving a single injury. It is said that no weapon can pierce her skin. However, it loses its toughness completely when she is in a psychological crisis, such as when someone dropped Mother Carmel's photograph that she holds dear to the point that just falling to her knees could cause her to bleed.[27] She easily destroyed Vinsmoke Judge's spear with her teeth when he tried to attack her with it.[28] Big Mom later took a massive thunderbolt from Zeus that was empowered by Nami's Weather Egg, which was powerful enough to create a giant crater in the ground, and was completely unfazed by it.[29] This is a tremendous feat, as a regular unenhanced thunderbolt from Zeus was powerful enough to knock out Vinsmoke Judge in one hit.[30] Later on, she withstood the force of Pedro's suicidal explosion - a massive explosion powerful enough to grievously injure Charlotte Perospero, despite him wearing a Candy Armor to mitigate its effects - only to rise again absolutely unscathed. Shortly afterwards, she took a point-blank hit from the Thousand Sunny's Coup de Burst and was once again completely unaffected by it. While in an emaciated and hungry state, she also took the full force of Jinbe's Buraikan and quickly recovered without apparent damage.[31]
Big Mom's body possess an extremely powerful metabolism, which seems to limit her endurance. While suffering from a craving for wedding cake, Linlin rapidly became slimmer hours after her craving fit started, and her skin appears to be less tough, as she received superficial bruises all over her body after being struck by her homie Zeus' discharged lightning.[31]
Big Mom also seems to possess an acute sense of smell, being able to catch the wedding cake's scent, despite the ship carrying it being several miles away from her position and barely visible at all in the horizon.
Big Mom releases a shrieking cry.
Big Mom also possesses the ability to emit an extremely loud shriek when psychologically destabilized.[32] Her scream is powerful enough to destroy nearby buildings, as well as completely incapacitate those around her, causing them to either faint or cover their ears in pain, including individuals as powerful as Luffy or Sweet Commanders Smoothie and Katakuri. Four of the Vinsmoke siblings, who were genetically enhanced to have superhuman fortitude, were also shaken by her scream until they were given earplugs. The sheer pressure from her scream, along with her Haoshoku Haki, can destroy incoming projectiles before they can reach her body, thus providing a form of defense in lieu of her usual bodily toughness.
Big Mom has acquired the powers of the Soru Soru no Mi after the death of its previous owner, Carmel,[33] a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows her to manifest the soul of whomever she touches into an ethereal substance. She can grab hold of this substance and extract it from the victim, taking away their lifespan by an amount of her choice and absorbing it into herself. If taken at a sufficient number, it will kill the victim.[34] However, this ability has no effect on anyone who does not fear her as Big Mom was unable to take away Jinbe's lifespan because he showed no fear towards her.[35]
She can put harvested souls into non-living things in order to give them life or into animals in order to give them human abilities. Those creatures are named Homies. This makes her power similar to the Kage Kage no Mi. However, unlike the user of the Kage Kage no Mi, she cannot put souls into dead corpses or the body of another human. She can also create incarnations of her own soul that will complete the task of collecting souls.[36]
Special Homies
Big Mom with her special homies in battle.
With her Devil Fruit powers, Big Mom used fragments of her own soul to create three special homies that are far more powerful than ones created with other people's souls: Zeus, a thundercloud she summons with her left hand; Prometheus, a sun she summons with her right hand; and Napoleon, a bicorne she wears on her head. Zeus and Prometheus allow Big Mom to unleash extremely powerful flames and lightning bolts, and can also combine their powers to manipulate the weather and create massive storms as a manifestation of Big Mom's unstoppable rage.[37] She can also ride Zeus to fly at high speeds.[38] Napoleon can relay information received from other homies to Big Mom,[39] and it also contains a retractable blade that it can use to both attack on its own[40] and for Big Mom to wield in combat.[41]
Linlin can utilize and has shown mastery over two types of Haki.
Haoshoku Haki
Big Mom uses Haoshoku Haki.
Big Mom possesses Haoshoku Haki.[32] She was first seen using it at Sanji and Pudding's wedding to knock a man out for questioning her relationship with Mother Carmel.[42] When her portrait of Carmel was destroyed, a distraught Big Mom unleashed her Haki, which, along with her loud screams, incapacitated most of the party guests.[43]
Big Mom is a powerful master of Busoshoku Haki. By hardening her arm, she easily blocked Luffy's Gear Fourth Kong Gun, a tremendous feat as Luffy's Kong Gun is powerful enough to break through powerful Haki based defenses of highly skilled Busoshoku Haki users such as Doflamingo, Cracker, and Katakuri. Like Luffy's Gear Fourth, her Busoshoku sports flame marks at its ending.[44]
Big Mom's bicorne, Napoleon, can reveal a hidden blade and become her personal weapon.[45] Using it in combination with her monstrous strength allows her to unleash powerful shockwaves that can cause massive destruction.[46] None have yet shown to prove able to withstand Napoleon's powerful strikes, as even Jinbe was overwhelmed by the blade despite putting up his best Haki defenses. Napoleon can also be engulfed in Prometheus' flames to increase its attack power.[47]
References
↑One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 45Chapter 432 (p. 7) and Episode 314, Garp reveals that the Yonko are the four most powerful pirates in the world.
↑One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 60Chapter 594 (p. 3) and Episode 511, The Gorosei note that only the remnants of the Whitebeard Pirates and the other Yonko are capable of stopping Blackbeard's rise to power.
↑One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 81Chapter 814 (p. 9) and Episode 764, The Straw Hats note that Big Mom could easily crush them if they fought her without a plan.
↑One Piece Manga — Vol. 86Chapter 859 (p. 2), At the strategy conference called by Capone Bege, Pedro says that if they fail to assassinate Big Mom within the 5 second timeframe for diversion, they would all be killed instead, to which Straw Hat Pirates agreed, admiring her power as a Yonko.
↑One Piece Manga — Vol. 83Chapter 835 (p. 12), Chopper notes the power and capability of Big Mom's crew.
↑One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 66Chapter 652 (p. 2) and Episode 572, Jinbe and Neptune discuss the former's alliance with Big Mom.
↑One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 81Chapter 807 (p. 9) and Episode 756, Nami reveals that Bege has allied himself with Big Mom.
↑One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 81Chapter 815 (p. 2, 6) and Episode 766, Pekoms reveals that the Vinsmoke Family leads Germa 66 and is intending to ally themselves with Big Mom.
↑One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 81Chapter 815 (p. 5-6) and Episode 766, Pekoms explains the requirements for newcomers to sail under Big Mom.
↑One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 62Chapter 610 (p. 13) and Episode 528, Pappug reveals that Big Mom is protecting Fishman Island in return for a payment of large amounts of candy each month.
↑One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 66Chapter 651 (p. 11) and Episode 571, Big Mom notes how the country Bobbin burned down failed to deliver the sweets they promised her.
↑One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 66Chapter 651 (p. 15, 19) and Episode 571, Pekoms states that he does not want to be yelled at by Big Mom, and Tamago cowers in fear when Big Mom admonishes him for trying to negotiate.
↑One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 81Chapter 815 (p. 4-5) and Episode 766, Pekoms lists various people who might be killed in order to punish Sanji for refusing Big Mom's invitation, leading a shocked Luffy to wonder how the Big Mom Pirates know about all of Sanji's connections.
↑One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 81Chapter 813 (p. 9) and Episode 763, Vito claims that even the demons of Hell will attend Big Mom's tea parties at her behest.
↑One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 83Chapter 829 (p. 12, 14) and Episode 789, Big Mom destroys a large portion of the ground and an entire building with a single punch each.
↑One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 83Chapter 829 (p. 8) and Episode 788, Big Mom levels several buildings by throwing a life-imbued sun at them.
50,000,000, implying that even at this time she was considered a real threat. This bounty later increased to at least 
