I think ur confussing urself, Traveler only fights with Skirk when she has an amp and therefore Skof is also amped
- Skirk post amp => Traveler Training >= Skof Amp > Skirk Base >= Skof Base >= Traveler Natlan
This should clerificate things
So bassicly we have
- Traveler and Skirk holding back against Base Skof
- Traveler being sure of taking down amp Skof but just backing down once he realize he could put Skirk or Paimon in danger
- Later he and skirk were cooking bro
- And the entire narrative of the quest is Traveler not being less than Skirk
All this points just put Traveler post skirk training scaling to her in some capacity