Spider-man goes off and on. Sometimes he has no problem taking out big name baddies on his own, other times, he needs to recruit everyone and their robot and it still takes said combine force forever and a day to resolve the conflict: Carnage, for example.
That having been said, as long as the Spider is "on" he's got it, hands down, no dobut.
If he's doesn't think of Deathstroke as a real threat or he's on the rag, or whatever, Deathstroke might take it. Maybe.
Deathstroke's tactics will give Spider-man a run for his money, but "super reflexes" don't beat border-line pre-cognition any day of the week. If Deathstroke did his homework, he will have all of Parker's weaknesses worked out well in advance, and he'd more than likely have some sort of hostage, but with Spider-man and his "Spidey-Sense" I don't really see him laying anything more than a glancing blow.
Pete's also got a mobility advantage on Slade. No, he can't fly, but everything short of it, and if need be, Parker can dodge all day long and web every inch of battlegound until Deathstroke can't move: another of Spider-man's fav tactics.
As a note toward the writing styles of the different companies:
No, Marvel doesn't write street levelers as well as DC because Marvel just doesn't "do" those kinds of characters. Whenever Marvel introduces someone who's only powers are "advanced combat training" or "has a knife on their person more often than not" they are a suck character and either gain powers because Thor left his hammer lying around again, or because someone dumped toxic waste where they shouldn't have. They give hope to th bullied DnD nerd that at some point in your life, you will have an indestructible metal grafter to your skeleton and then those quaterbacks will be sorry.
DC, on the other hand, doesn't "do" ZOMFG!-Omnipotent characters. Sure, they got like 15 versions of Superman/Lantern, but even these guys can be taken down (and regularly are) by the "my power is being rich" characters. Batman/Luthor always have 7 different ways to not not lose to Supes at any given moment. It gives readers hope that they too, can not die, if need be, no matter what, which is good.
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