Best Build for Hodgkin in AFK Arena (Artifacts, Furniture, Signature Item, Emblems)

If you want to make Hodgkin perform at peak performance in AFK Arena, you need to run the right built. While many players think simply maxing out will do the trick (well, not too wrong), there are certain sweetspots with Hodgkin that will give a big boost so I have some recommendations below that you will very likely find interesting.

Important! If you want to check how well Hodgkin does in the current meta of all heroes in AFK Arena, please check out my current tier list of all heroes here.

Hodgkin’s Signature Item

Furniture Recommendation

Overall it’s recommended to get Hodgkin’s **9/9 furniture** set bonus. Hodgkin Both his furniture bonus are on point. The 3/9 will make his debuff permanent after using his ultimate and the 9/9 will make the enemy debuff stronger and also add damage every time he ultimate again which compliments Hodgkin’s overall mechanics very well. If you want to learn more about in what order to unlock your heroes furniture sets, check out my Furniture Priority Guide.

Engraving

Engravings are an important part for Hodgkin and this is probably the main reason why you’re here on this page. Below you will find the optimal Engraving Levels as well as our recommended route how to invest in the Engravings as you normally don’t just have the cores lying around just waiting to max out an Engraving for a hero. In the case of Hodgkin you don’t have to invest into any Engravings when we talk about the absolute MINIMAL INVESTMENT to make this hero work. The RECOMMENDED INVESTMENT (the investment you should have in order to be able to make the hero work well enough), which is E36 and for those of you who really want to make Hodgkin shine the MAXIMUM INVESTMENT (the one that makes sense, there is literally no need to invest further unless you’re a PvP whale and drop a ton of money on the game), which is E61.

The more interesting part, however, is the order how to invest your cores in the different nodes, right? Well, below you will find the perfect order to invest the cores in (simply follows the numbers – the colors of the numbers will show you if this is optimal=green or maximum=blue investment). This helps you invest your cores in the most efficient and economic way and get the most of of them with Hodgkin:

Spending Order E0-E30

Spending Order E30+

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Recommended Artifacts

When you have to choose which artifact you want to equip on Hodgkin, there are several ones that will work well – below I have a list with some individual ranking so you can see which artifact works best from S/S+ Tier downwards.

BarricadeS+
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Barricadeis the best-working artefact for Hodgkin in overall performance and in most setups. But I also have listed some alternatives below.
Alternative Artifact
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Conclusion

I hope this guide helped you to build your Hodgkin correctly without wasting resources but also to make sure to get the best performance of the hero. If you want to see how well Hodgkin performs in the tier list of all heroes or you want to see builds for other heroes, please refer to our basically weekly-updated tier list of heroes in AFK Arena here.