User blog comment:ImperiexSeed/To those of you who think the RF was trying in 1x22, then why didn't Barry just have the Arrow defeat the RF in 1x09?/@comment-5544928-20150604193204

your argument is completely 100% flawed. The arrow didn't go after the reverse flash in 1x09 because Barry didn't even know about him until the next episode when the reverse-flash was officially introduced. and when they caught him in "Rogue Air", the flash did not "send" oliver to get him. He realized that he could not catch him on his own so he called him and Firestorm for help (although I still don't know how he could have gotten hold of Oliver when he was in Nanda Parbat). It took all three of them to stop him, not just Oliver. Do you even remember that the reverse flash was about to kill Oliver before the Flash and Firestorm came in to get him?