My primary team consists of Squall, Rinoa, and Zell. I'm not a big magic oriented person. I literally like hacking things to death with a weapon because its fun. Of course, I also enjoy using a Squall-Irvine-Zell combo or a Squall-Rinoa-Irvine combo depending how gun-ho I feel at the moment.

I prefer using Zell over Irvine at times because I find that I get more hits with Zell since I'm used to Armegeddon Fist and how fast you have to be to press the buttons. but of course, Irvine has quick shot...which is extremely fun. Unloading 10+ shots on a boss. Just priceless.

Every character has their own advantages and disadvantages. It all depends on what you like. just build it to your liking. =D