Hi, I am currently a gold 1 player that switched to league from dota 4 months ago. Zed is the first champ i bought and I immediately fell in love with his kit. I have been spamming him in mid but after his jungle buff, i have been experimenting this zed's bruiser build and created this guide to share the build that works pretty well for me.

First of all, I recommend playing Zed mid before trying him in jungle if you have no experience with Zed.Zed is not a strong early game champ like popular bruisers such as xin zhao or leesin.
You need to be careful and select your fights properly pre 6 while playing jungle zed because W is his only engage and escape ability.
You want to play relatively safe with zed but you can go for ganks if the enemy is overextended or if your laner set up a dive or when the kill opportunity is certain. No need to rush as you will eventually scale. Having oracle lens all the time is a must on zed as well. You can do objective like dragon and herald pretty easily thanks to your passive. If you are certain that the enemy won't come, you can smite to get the dragon/herald to get it below half health to activate the passive. The damage is crazy.
With this build, you can live alot longer than the full lethality zed build and goredrinker + your passive suprisingly deal a good amount of damage. You can go into fights like a bruiser if you know you won't be bursted immediately and goredrinker allows you to make low hp clutch plays.
Please try this build out and give me your thoughts on it