[victorf]

If you can figure out the enemy dog is a fire type, you can switch your team up accordingly :)

Is state-of-the art for that kind of recognition deep learning?

[dumitrue]

Yes, though I think on public benchmarks this is still not the case. There's a dog-breed classification problem in this year's Fine-Grained challenge (https://sites.google.com/site/fgcomp2013/) so we'll see in December!