>>10017824dont think of power leves as the all end, someone being a few hundreds above someone else doesnt make them completely wipe the floor with them.
Everytime power levels were brought up in the show was to show that they were not reliable and the thing that determined fights. Freeza had the ability to kill goku, But goku was strong enough to fight him off, which no one up to then had been, freeza was used to always having the upperhand.