Board Thread:Theories and Rumors/@comment-33064916-20170910041027/@comment-27170788-20171209214449

As I understand, that was to say that her replicated powers were taken-- not that her amber abilities are gone. She just lost the templates for her copied elements, if you will.

If you view the chain where Tommy says "That was taken from her to create the Ansicobdrai spell.", later conversation is as follows...

Curtis Cheung: so... she still have Amber, but not the powers she absorbed?

Tommy: That would be my estimate. Every power was returned after the staff was broken.

Dave, son of Nya: but she touched kai after it so she still has fire?

Tommy: Most likely. Maybe others. Who kniw with Amber? It's a pretty sticky power.

Storm6075:  Well if she loses all those powers and keeps some it may take a while to discover some.

Tommy: Yes. Or the little she has left may grow. Who knows.

Gaming Sensei: I thought Skylor only keeps powers for a limited time?

Tommy: That may be true.

So this conversation seems to indicate that Skylor's powers were effectively drained-- losing most of their energy without being fully depleted. She'd have to re-absorb all the other powers (except maybe Kai's) in order to use them again, and she may also have to give her powers time to "re-charge" if you will, in order to reach full strength again.

of course the writers aren't exactly known for being fully consistent, so given that this chain is from 2016 it's possible that that was his guess at the time, but the writers have changed their minds about the route they want to take. *shrug*