Vecna is a level 20 wizard *and* Cleric with a silly number of spell levels. This means that given prep, he can do just about anything, and abusing the contingency spell means that Sidious can't touch him if Vecna doesn't want to be touched, and given that Vecna has access to any number of divinitation spells, he can foresee and prepare for pretty much any possible outcome and create contingency spells to rebuff and counter any attack. So anything sidious does will be countered by a spell tailored to defeat whatever he was trying to use.
Force storm? Sorry this here dimensional anchor says no messing with spacetime for you. Force lightning? Liches are naturally immune to electricity.
Or of course Vecna can Gate in a Solar who can in turn gate in another Solar who can gate in more Solars and keep on doing this until the battlefield is flooded with Solars who are themselves, high level spell casters and mighty physical warriors. He can then command them to all cast miracle to write Palpatine out of existence.
Or he could cast shape change and shapechange *into* a Pit fiend and be invulnerable to attack as a Pit Fiend's regeneration can only be foiled by holy, silvered weapons, other forms of physical damage only deal nonlethal damage which does not apply to the undead. Palpatine certainly does not have any holy weapons made out of alchemical silver in his arsenal.
Or he could just use Wish and strike Palpatine from reality.
Or he could use Unname and strike Palpatine from reality and destroy his soul at the same time.
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