>>40381648It has to, surely. This is probably the most deserving of all the Pokemon to get a Galarian form/evolution since it's, as far as I'm aware, the only Pokemon in the original 151 to be based on a UK legend(The Loch Ness monster).
It would also be logical for the Galarian version to be the original in lore, with the Kanto one being a variation of it.