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The entire team system is absolutely fucked from top to bottom anyway; they should really put a disclaimer that it only fucking matters that you pick the same team as a friend you plan to play with often for gym takeover/defense sake.
They could have and still could do so much more with the idea, but making each team a completely arbitrary choice that only matters in a metagame sense is exactly the reason hanke should have never been given the IP.