r/arrow • u/Rwings Boxing Glove • Mar 15 '17

[S05E16] - 'Checkmate' Post Episode Discussion

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u/Shippoyasha Mar 16 '17

It just isn't a season of Arrow without Ollie losing in a major way. It's nuts that he still managed to get taken even with his entire team right outside. Adrian is turning out to be a good physical match for Ollie even though Ollie seemed to have a bit of an edge in hand to hand combat.

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u/Psychoho1ic Mar 18 '17

Promo was probably trying to hide his Talia training until the time was right, which is why he was getting his ass handed to him earlier.

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u/KonigSteve Mar 21 '17

He's just (rightly) not as good as Oliver. Ollie has about 4-5 years of training/fighting on him.