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I've yet to see an ASB gym system/proposed gym system that involved leaders totally giving up the rest of their teams in favor of whatever theme they chose. Or am I not understanding you correctly?
Anyway, who says the gym leaders have to have type-based or team-based themes at all? If I recall the way TPM does it (and it's been a looong time, and also I never got around to doing much with the gyms, etc.), the gym leaders' gimmicks are based primarily around their crazy gym arenas and not their teams. They might pick some of their existing team as their "designated gym team" (don't remember whether that was required or some just did it because they felt like it), and they might personally decide to have those choices follow a theme, but iirc it was more arena-based strategy they were concerned with.
Anyway, who says the gym leaders have to have type-based or team-based themes at all? If I recall the way TPM does it (and it's been a looong time, and also I never got around to doing much with the gyms, etc.), the gym leaders' gimmicks are based primarily around their crazy gym arenas and not their teams. They might pick some of their existing team as their "designated gym team" (don't remember whether that was required or some just did it because they felt like it), and they might personally decide to have those choices follow a theme, but iirc it was more arena-based strategy they were concerned with.