Bruisers tend to need a little strong CC to be really effective - see Jax, Irelia, Renekton, Wukong, etc. Zed can do everything your offtank build suggests by going full assassin anyway. Zed can whittle down enemies from a distance with Shadows and Shurikens and then go in for the 3s kill. You don't need this offtank build at all. In fact, this offtank build shoots him in the foot and weakens his all in potential. He's literally one of the safest assassins out there and you're basically going full-wimp mode anyway.

You aren't working with his abilities at all; you build minimal AD and focus on AS which he doesn't scale as strongly with until he ults. You are building items which don't synergise with him even if offtank Zed was a thing.

You don't deal any damage, you don't tank anything effectively, you don't lock down the opponent. All you do is shadow around the map as a distraction that can be ignored.

Zed bruiser is like support Lee Sin, not worst but worse than average.
My eyes are bleeding.

I guess, if I ever get around to it I'll get back to you on the build, but again I don't understand what you think he offers as a bruiser. I don't at all understand why your not on default investing anything in AD or Armor Pen, or why you like Wit's End and Frozen Mallet. I just don't see the point in a Zed that can't instantly burst his enemies. He has low damage with his spells, comparatively low DPS, maybe decent engages, but nothing but mediocre damage Basic Attacks to follow up with.

If you've had success with it there might be something behind it, and I'll give it a chance, but for now I really don't know about taking an assassin and trying to force them into a DPS bruiser role.

Apparently you are missing the real aim/role you are going to perform using this build.It is clearly not supposed to act as an insta-kill.The damage your gonna deal and the utility your gonna provide is something that you wont be able to see only by the numbers.The only way to really see the potential of this build is using it in one of your games.I really encourage you trying out this build and leaving some more feedback.After playing it you will see that you are capable of assasinating targets pretty decently and will contribute A LOT to the game.

Tnx for the feedback and please leave some more after you've tested the build.

-Kurishiasu

Off-Tank Zed? I don't know, he misses out on his ability to take down huge threats in 3 seconds or less, and doesn't contribute well in any other way.

With that build you're focusing on Attack Speed and On-Hit, which Zed has no synergy with. Most of his damage is in his spells, and you have almost no AD to support that so I can't see that part working at all well.

Maybe if you had more AD and more Offense I could see some potential but then it would just become a defensive Zed build and nothing more.