Either way, while Vader can use most other Force abilities, Force Lightning needs to be channeled, and Vader's limbs are explicitly not connected to the Force. The Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Visual Dictionary confirms Darth Vader cannot use Force Lightning, and even suggests this is the reason why.
Darth Vader can not use force lighting, because of his severed arms. Robotic hands can't summon the force lighting. However Darth Vader can still use other forms of the force, such as force choke.
Due to Vader's mechanical suit, he cannot interact with lightning under the pain of suffering malfunctions in the vital life support systems he uses. This is a rare problem for him to come up against, due to only other Sith commonly utilizing such a capability.
Kylo demonstrably couldn't defeat Snoke directly, instead killing his master via deception. Kylo most likely never learned how to conjure Force lightning, which is considered an advanced skill for dark side users.
In canon, it has been speculated that Anakin could, but never learned how to before becoming Darth Vader. As Darth Vader, it's possible that he never did because lightning might be a technique where the electricity travels through your entire body, and Vader is mostly mechanical, so he would destroy his own body/limbs.
Force lightning ability was not restricted to dark-siders. Jedi and other light-siders who were strong of will and character could learn this power without falling to the dark side—but its use was viewed as inherently corrupting, and most Jedi Councils forbade its use.
She and Kylo Ren were both trying to bring the transport to themselves with the Force, and in her anger, she accidentally unleashed lightning upon it, destroying the ship immediately.
Yoda is a Jedi Master, and he's had centuries to perfect his skills. He's so attuned to the Force that he can channel it through his body, using it as a conductor to absorb and neutralize that electric zap. It's like catching lightning in a jar, but instead, Yoda just absorbs it into his green, wrinkly skin.
While unleashing the lightning storm, he screams at Vader that it is a Sith's right to revel in the glory of their own strength, and there's nothing that displays the unadulterated, raw power of the Dark Side of the Force than Force Lightning. This explains why Palpatine's default Force-attack is lightning.
Since Anakin's defeat on Mustafar, he needed frequent visits to his bacta tank to survive, and even the Vader suit itself was crude enough for Palpatine to control him. So with an aged body, a mind out of balance and the surprise of Luke's attack, Vader was caught at his weakest point.
Either way, while Vader can use most other Force abilities, Force Lightning needs to be channeled, and Vader's limbs are explicitly not connected to the Force. The Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Visual Dictionary confirms Darth Vader cannot use Force Lightning, and even suggests this is the reason why.
Palpatine's Force Lightning Was Far Less Powerful Than Darth Siberus' While the Emperor was the first Star Wars character to ever use Force lightning in a movie, Darth Sidious' lightning power does not come close to what Darth Siberus could do.
Darth Vader's true form, revealed in a Star Wars comic, is even scarier than fans can imagine, showing his remaining humanity being overwhelmed by darkness. In his meditation, Vader is depicted floating among a lightning storm over dark waters, covered in bloody tendrils and represented by white missing limbs.
During The Rise of Skywalker, Ray accidentally uses Force lightning on the planet Pasana, believing she accidentally killed Chewbacca. While this moment was used to hint at her Palpatine heritage, it also shows that anyone can use the lightning, but only if they channel their anger.
Maul prefers using his lightsaber than force abilities because he likes feeling his saber cut through people. and Kylo wasn't properly trained, hence why he's technically not a sith. Most siths actually do use force lightning.
Although, with the battle against Mace Windu in his office, Palpatine's Force-lightning was reflected back and scarred his face, making it wrinkled and appear far older than he already was.
It became seen as a gateway to the dark side, with some choosing to practice it in secret. Remarkably, Mace Windu is only one of a few Form VII users who didn't fall to the dark side thanks to his refining Juyo into Vaapad.
Palpatine carried the lightsaber for a great deal of his life afterward, though he only rarely wielded it in combat, as his position as Emperor made battles with other Force-users few and far between, and he preferred to rely on his raw ability with the Force in any case.
While he never showed the ability to use Force lightning before, it's appearance here helps communicate Kylo Ren's shift in his allegiance, and it's presently the only canon instance of Kylo using such an ability.
The subject of this article appeared in the New Jedi Order era. Pyrokinesis was a Force power that allowed a Force-user to manipulate and generate fire by rubbing and heating up air molecules together. The power seemed to have two major applications, the manipulation, and the generation of fire.
That made sense because all of the Jedi that used a Force choke did so when they were afraid, angry or desperate. It was simply too easy of a path to reaching the dark side, so the Jedi consciously chose to avoid using the Force to choke their adversaries.
Anakin Skywalker's Chosen One Potential Was Permanently Stunted. The Darth Vader comic book series reveals that, while the eponymous Sith Lord was indeed capable of using Force Lightning, the electricity could potentially destroy his life-sustaining suit.
Dooku first used Force lightning at a young age. According to the audiobook, Dooku: Jedi Lost, he was once abducted for a Dark Side ritual, conjuring lightning to kill his captors and escape. Dooku went on to become one of the greatest Jedi masters, but his ability to use lightning was seemingly a natural talent.
