Forum:Inzektor Giga-Mantis and XYZ summoning

A friend of mine is working on an Inzektor deck, and he had a question for me a while back while he was testing it on Duel Network about what happens when a monster equipped with Inzektor Giga-Mantis is used for an XYZ summon. He asked me because it was sent to the graveyard while an equip card if it got it's effect, since the monster it was equipped to did not leave the field, but ceased to be a monster and therefore could no longer be equipped with Mantis. I told him that for the sake of time he should assume no, since the similar rulings involving having the equipped monster being destroyed, bounced, removed, etc have the effect not trigger, but just to be absolutely certain, I pose the following question:

Did I rule correctly? If a monster equipped with Inzektor Giga-Mantis is used for an XYZ summon, Mantis does NOT get its special summon effect? 129.1.72.61 (talk) 04:48, January 22, 2012 (UTC)