User blog comment:Josephyr/Oliver vs Slade/@comment-71.209.165.237-20140331014918

well, although slade is stroger than oliver and has more years of fighting experience oliver stll does have some advantages.

First, although slade is stronger oliver dosent need to match his strength. he just needs to think of a way to get an advantage from a distance, then when slade is weak or distracted, go in for the kill. I.e. when oliver shot slade through the eye, slade must have gone down for some time for oliver to think hes dead. oliver just needs to pull off something like that again, then when slade is down, go in and finnish the kill.

second, although slade is driven by revenge, oliver is driven too. and now that slade has thea, oliver has even more drive. The desperation to protect his sister will give him strength you coulnt imagen. with theas life on the line im sure oliver could get the upper hand on slade.

third, oliver has back up. oliver is match in there fighting skill level with slade (although slade is much stronger). then there is sara, who is also on par with them. and although dig is not up to there skill, he will deffinatly be handy in a fight when slade is distarcted in a fight with sarah and oliver digg can take a few shots. then there is roy, who matches slades strength. sarah and oliver just have to distract slade long enough to give roy an opening, as roy is not on there fighting level. and if need be, sara can also call on her father and the poilic force, just to give them a little extra advantage.

fourth, if slade does have some kind of technology, video, back up plan that could reveal oliver as arrow im sure felicity would be on top of it and erase it or stop it before it could do damage to oliver.

fith, this show is called arrow, and in a show like that the hero always wins ;)