I believe it is the update, I also experienced lag spikes but not nearly as much or away bad as your talking about. Normally pocket legends runs pretty smooth on 3g connection that's that I run and I'm assuming that's what you run. My ping stays around 160 and runs smooth as can be. I Hope in the next couple days your lag will be fixed (I'm sure it will be).
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