Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-13895380-20160824190348/@comment-3221148-20160829143452

Well, I'd think so, but someone recently has been editing all the RF and time remnant articles to say that Eobard was always a time remnant, that always traveled into the NEW timeline, and that there never was a 2020's Flash.

As for powers, RF says that he just recreated the experiment that gave 2020's Barry his powers. However, I think his are connected to there being another speedster to get "negative" Speed Force from. As in, by going to the year 2000 and changing Barry's timeline he created a possibility in which Barry never became the Flash, which is why his own Speed Force connection faltered (if there's no Flash, there's no red-anti-energy Reverse-Flash), forcing him to make sure that Barry DOES become the Flash. The stronger Barry became, the stronger was Eobard (which is why Barry never saw the Man in Yellow again while growing up, then Eobard started losing speed when something was wrong with Barry, like in Episode 11).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esfT8kRGAYc