In battle, if you manage to defeat your enemies without them being able to damage you, you will be awarded with an "Excellent Bonus". An "Excellent Bonus" restores 10% of all of your party's SP. When it is your character's turn to act, select a command from the Command Wheel to give him an order. Below are the various Command's available, aswell as descriptions as to what they each do.

Combos
Selecting "Combo" will execute an attack that hits the enemy several times. This can cause a lot of damage to the enemy, but it does not have a Cancel effect.

Criticals
Stun an enemy with one strong attack. Thise causes more damage than a single Combo attack, but less than multiple Combo attacks. If the attack hits while the enemy's icon is between COM and ACT, the enemy's next command will be canceled.

Aerial Combos
An Aerial Combo is when one character sends an enemy flying into the air and another character hits him before he hits the ground. Each of your characters have powerful attacks that can only be used during a successful Aerial Combo, so try to perfom as many as possible.

Item
Select this command to use an item from your inventory such as a healing item to recover HP or an offensive item to damage an enemy.

Strategy
You can check, change, or excute the Strategy AI used during automated combat.

Flee
This command allows you to run away from a battle. However, it does not always work. And even if you successfully excape from a battle, the monster will still be there when you return to the Field Map, so quickly recover HP or leave the area. After leaving a battle, your character will flash for a few seconds. You cannot be attacked during this time.

Defend
Defend against attacks (reducing damage) or avoid attacks by moving to another location on the battle field. When this command is selected, blue circles will appear on the ground. To defend, select the circle that the character is already standing in. To avoid the attack, select another circle.

Magic
Use Magic that you have equipped to your party member. Using Magic causes the character's MP to go down.

Special Move
Execute' one of the character's Special Moves. Once the character's Special Level has reached a certain point, using a Combo attack during combat will sometimes allow them to learn a new Special Move. Using Special Moves causes the character's SP to go down.

Use Weapon
Some weapons have special abilities that allow them to be used as items during battle. This command is only displayed on the Command Wheel when a character is using this kind of weapon. You can check the abilities of a particular weapon by selecting "Equip" on the Status Screen.

Orb
The power of the Guardians. Once you use an Orb, you must wait for the Orb Gauge to refill before using another Orb. The Orb Gauge will slowly refill by defeating enemies, when it changes to a rainbow, you will be able to use it once again.