The Yonko, also known as the Four Emperors, have existed in the world of One Piece for quite a long time. Since Roger started the Great Pirate Era, countless pirates took to the seas to assert their superiority over them and finally, get to the grand treasure that he left behind, called the One Piece. Out of all the pirates, four took the era by storm and started to rule over the seas like kings and they're the pirates who everyone knows as the Yonko.
Currently, the Yonko are made up of Big Mom, the Queen of Tottoland, Kaido, the Supreme Commander of the Beasts Pirates, Shanks, the Chief of the Red Hair Pirates, and Marshall D. Teach, the Admiral of the Blackbeard Pirates. Undoubtedly, these four pirates are the mightiest on the seas right now, however, their age might be heading closer to its end sooner rather than later.
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One Piece's author, Eiichiro Oda, finally started focusing more on the Yonko after the timeskip. With Luffy heading into the New World, it was clear that the time for him to challenge the supremacy of the Yonko had arrived. On Fishman Island, Luffy picked a war with Big Mom, while Punk Hazard saw him form an alliance with Law to take Kaido down. Moving forward, Luffy even clashed with Big Mom during the Whole Cake Island arc, however, it wasn't until the Wano Country arc that he took his first step towards becoming a pirate capable of rivaling the Yonko.
In Wano, Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates formed an alliance with the samurai of Wano and even the likes of the Worst Generation to an extent, in order to combat the joint power of Kaido and Big Mom. Without a doubt, this task is humongous yet, together, the Worst
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