Ahh I feel the same way, looking at old pieces of writing really is cringe worthy for me at times. But writing is just my favorite thing to do in many ways, I love to RP obviously, but I also love writing short stories and essays, my favorite things to write is poetry however, I'd like to think that the creative styles used in poems spill into other things I do at times.
And well, Jun DOES like to try unorthodox battle methods after all. All he really wants is for kakuna to battle enough to evolve... but because he's so slow, Jun likes to try and give him a slight "advantage". XD