In Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Lightning can make use of auto-abilities assigned to garbs, weapons, shields, accessories, and command abilities can also gain auto-abilities; abilities that contain auto-abilities are yellow in the menu. Sometimes new auto-abilities appear to command abilities when the player fuses them. Auto-abilities activate automatically during battle, sometimes when specific conditions are met, whenever Lightning is in the schema the auto-ability hosting weapon/ability/garb etc is assigned to.