You can also just cancel a turn at any time with O, as long as your party member has the next turn, so you can avoid that, or even set everyone to Guard before enemies attack. P2, at least IS, is broke as fuck.
You have to have a Wii U LAN adapter too, which is dumb, and why I can't play 3U online on 3DS.
Godammit. Fuck it I'm just going to double dip and get the Wii U version