>>29148857The gym system is fucking awful all around.
But I guess that a good way to make them less stagnant would be forcing the player to go to the gym and feed the pokemon berries or some new food items every couple of days.
Give a food meter to each pokemon, if the bar falls below 50%, it'll get increasingly weaker and when it falls to 0% the pokemon will return to the trainer.
Perhaps make it so that large pokemon would require a ton of food so that pokemon outside of the top 5 get used again?