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Hydrogen embrittlement is a classical problem in bulk materials while it is rather untouched for advanced materials such as micro-architectured materials. This can be a barrier to industrial adoption of these materials where hydrogen is present as a popular source of energy. In this study, we developed a numerical scheme to assess the hydrogen degradation in metallic micro-architectured materials. The numerical scheme is built on the concept of elastoplastic homoge nization and two hydrogen embrittlement theories, i.e. hydrogen enhanced decohesion (HEDE) and hydrogen enhanced localized plasticity (HELP). The use of homogenization allows for explicit de nition of a unit-cell, drastically improving the computation time. The hydrogen degradation loci of two speci c micro-architectured materials, that is cubic (with 10%, 20% and 30% relative densities) and body-center cubic (with 20% relative density), are numerically characterized. Additionally, the in uence of unit-cell topology, relative density, and trap hydrogen on the degradation of homogenized macroscopic material is determined. Finally, a unique failure locus is provided for generic cubic unit-cell with arbitrary relative densities. This degradation law is in- dependent of the relative density and can be interpreted as a material property, contributing to the material design charts.