@uzuchiha: Your post is a mix of highballing Nate and underestimating Frank. Drake's durable alright, but his best feats are still casual to Frank. I don't feel like arguing this in-depth or anything, but even if Nate had every single stat advantage-- which he doesn't, far from it-- he'd have no counter to Castle's marksmanship. Feel free to disagree, I'm just giving you my thoughts since you asked.
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Kidding. Slade should still beat this Damian, though.
Going by their fights, it didn't seem to be that overwhelming an edge in their first fight, just enough to put him slightly over in a fight. When they fought again a few years later, however, the gap seemed to be much higher, to the point of Slade casually catching his punches and nearly killing him with three strikes. The gap is currently wider than it's ever been, to the point that Slade doesn't even really feel Bruce grabbing him and choking him with a chain midair, not needing to fight back or resist at all apart from tugging slightly on the chain in the other direction with two fingers.
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Batman actually resorted to using power gauntlets designed to battle Superman just to hurt him later in the series, and it still took 6-7 punches to his bare face to knock him out. Presently, the gap in strength and durability is very wide. Speed follows the same trend; Slade has always had better feats in this department, but Bruce initially kept up with a combination of superior technical skill and his own remarkable speed before eventually being outpaced. Speed didn't really come into play in their second fight in Detective Comics #710 aside from Slade reacting to and catching his punch, but he does scale above characters Bruce has been outpaced by, like Cass. Admittedly, the fact she can't read him plays into this too, but half the reason she can't is he's too fast for it in the first place.
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In contrast to the disparity in strength and durability, the speed discrepancy between the two stays the same from before and after Flashpoint, just about. It could be argued Slade acquired better standalone showings from the New-52 on, like the ubiquitous bullet-cutting feat and blatantly timing the detonation of propane, but they're still quite alike when it comes to combat showings. Slade kept up with Bruce while physically weakened and hindered skill-wise back in Deathstroke v3 #5, even seemingly moving faster than him at times. He had a great showing against Deadline in Deathstroke v4 #16, and while he isn't as fast as Cass, he was shown to have moved much faster than him than he did Batgirl. They fought briefly in Deathstroke v4 #32, but a few conclusions can still be drawn.
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Deathstroke was shown to freaking leapfrog over a full effort punch of his as well as dodge the rest of his strikes before the fight was interrupted. It's worth noting that Slade didn't really tag Batman either, but this is more to due with Bruce having kept him off balance with his power gloves. I'd say it's still quite a feat to have only been equipped with a simple combat knife and still fight evenly with a prepped Batman no less; a feat which Deathstroke himself attributes to his speed more than anything else, hence he questions if the gloves did anything to help match him in that regard.
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