Yoda chose to retreat as Sidious cackled in triumph above him. If the galaxy had any hope of freedom from the Sith, Yoda realized that he needed to survive for that to happen. Yoda crawled through the ventilation shafts and eventually dropped into Senator Bail Prestor Organa's airspeeder, escaping into exile.
The Sith Lord's powers were enough to overwhelm the Jedi and send him plummeting down to the depths of the senate chamber. Yet the battle wasn't a complete loss for Yoda, as Palpatine was just as overwhelmed and seemed to have taken the same level of beating. Even so, Yoda saw the fight as a loss and took his leave.
Sidious concealed his nature. Yoda sensed that the Dark Side was focused on the Jedi Order, but he didn't recognize Sidious until it was too late. The clearest demonstration of Sidious's skill is the fact that he dealt in person with Jedi Masters for 20 years and they never realized what he was.
Yoda fled because he believed he would lose, and his life was more valuable than to be thrown away so carelessly. Yoda won the long game, but absolutely, definitively lost the short game. In terms of the battle we are presented, Sidious was the victor.
The Empire grew to be an immense threat that even he felt he couldn't meaningfully fight, but the hope that Luke Skywalker brought ultimately proved to Yoda that the Jedi way wasn't lost.
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Was Palpatine afraid of Yoda?
He understood he lost the ethereal battle before their physical fight even began. Thus, Palpatine never viewed Yoda as a major concern, even though the Jedi Master fought him to a de facto draw during the events of Revenge of the Sith.
Even though Sidious mastered all forms of lightsaber fighting, Yoda can smash anybody (besides Luke in episode 7) in a lightsaber battle. Brute strength: Palpatine takes it. Palpatine can lash out with the force and do more damage than Yoda in one lightning bolt. Control: Yoda is the clear winner.
Palpatine was more focused on building the Galactic Empire. While his apprentice was wasting precious time and resources by hunting down an already defeated enemy. I'm surprised Darth Vader's obsession didn't get him killed.
Yoda had to shoulder that decision for years. However, he ultimately understood the importance of life, and the power he could have used to defeat Dooku would have been much better used to preserve two lives. Over the years, Dooku would commit countless atrocities and also suffer incredibly embarrassing defeats.
Master Yoda knew that Darth Vader was once Anakin Skywalker - the boy he sensed too much fear in to train way back in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. For many years it's been assumed Master Yoda was aware from the day Vader gained his cybernetic enhancements and signature wheeze.
He believed that the Sith, who had used lightsabers for tradition since the time of Darth Bane, should have moved on from using lightsabers (which, though invented by a Sith, had become the symbol of the Jedi) and instead rely entirely on scheming and the Dark Side of the Force to earn and maintain their power.
Yoda's presence on Dagobah was likely hidden due to his mastery of Force Stealth and the planet's connection to the Force. Yoda, with his enhanced Force abilities and potential home-field advantage, would have had the upper hand against Darth Vader if they engaged in a lightsaber duel.
Even if Yoda did not want to arrest Palpatine, with Mace there, the two could have killed Sidious before Anakin could stop it, given that Anakin only arrived on the scene moments before Mace had the chance to slice through him with his lightsaber.
Windu has created and fully mastered Vaapad, a variant of Form VII. Yoda mastered the original variant known as Juyo. Both of them were able to fight with Palpatine on equal ground, matching him blow for blow. It is stated that Yoda beat Mace in a sparring match.
Well, first I will go over why he spared them. After Order 66, there were still a number of surviving Jedi. And while Palpatine knew that Vader was perfectly able to kill any remaining Jedi, there were too many for one man to kill alone. So, instead of killing all the Jedi he found, some were captured and tortured.
Yoda and Palpatine once engaged in a skirmish on Coruscant during the events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, until the evenly matched duel ended in Yoda retreating. Palpatine proved in that confrontation that, with his use of the dark side, he was able to best the Jedi Grand Master.
Yoda saw his lightsaber as a weapon and a meditative tool, and vowed to never use it again as an act of penance for his involvement in the Clone Wars. Yoda chose to teach Luke Skywalker to be a true Jedi Knight without relying on combat, emphasizing the importance of selflessness over fighting.
A year later, in 4 ABY, with his health rapidly declining, Yoda died of old age when Skywalker returned to see him. He became one with the Force, shortly before Luke redeemed his father Anakin, who fulfilled his destiny as the Chosen One by killing Sidious.
Biography. Legend had it that Yoda—a Jedi who became Grand Master—was trained by N'Kata Del Gormo. A Force-sensitive Hysalrian, N'Kata Del Gormo was trained in the ways of the Force and achieved the rank of Master within the Jedi Order.
