Brainstorm to GO, part 2

There's some other things that could also be a thing, especially for achievement hoarders (like myself, it hurts to see that the Ace Trainer medal will always be "almost silver").

Let's cut to the chase.

One thing that could spice up gym fights would be the appearance of "specialized" gyms. Anyone familiar to the series should remember how were the gyms you had to fight in order to gain badges. So periodically (weekly?) gyms could become "specialized", that means, it becomes type-specific. A type-specific gym would favor that type, with a nasty bonus, like 20 or 30% stats increase. So, a gym that becomes a Poison Gym, gives that bonus to defending pokémons that are of poison type. This way, attackers would know what would they probably find at the gym battle, but the fight wouldn't be a walk in the park due to the increased power the defenders would get. Not every gym would be type-specific, it should be a periodically random thing. Also, there could be medals of defeating type-specific gyms. One medal for each possible type a gym could be.

I'd also add that there could be a way to train pokémon at a gym you're defending, or at least send a pokémon to train at a gym from your team that is type-specific of the monster's type (I need to get the Ace Trainer gold...).
The other thing is a bonus for getting specific pokémon teams. I'm not sure how would that be checked, if everytime a 'mon gets powered up, or catched, perhaps both. Nor do I know how much of the actual lore of the anime/original games can they use, like, characters we are familiar with. Having specific pokémons at specific levels could give bonuses, (or simply achievements, but bonuses are always welcome) that could serve as a memento to that lore.

Let's say you managed to have a lvl 35+ Onix and lvl 32+ Geodude, you'd get something related to Brock. High levels on a Psyduck, Togepi and Starmie, Misty, and so on. There could be some bonus for using a team with those specific pokémon, like just making them slightly stronger if used in the same team for a fight. I'm partial to the idea of a bonus for a whole dragon team, like the ones Lance used (even though not all of his 'mons were dragon-type in some fights).

That's all for today!